Extracted from the PDF above. The PDF is authoritative.
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 36979 of 2025 Court No. - 74 HON'BLE SANJAY KUMAR PACHORI, J. Sri Jai Kishan, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Alok Kumar Mishra, learned A.G.A. for the State are present. The present application under Section 528 of the B.N.S.S has been filed to quash the order dated 30.7.2025 passed by Additional Principal Judge Family Court, Fatehpur in Execution Case No. 56 of 2016, arising out of an application under Section 128 of Cr.P.C., whereby recovery warrant has been issued to recover the arrears of maintenance amount against the applicant as well as issue a direction to the Additional Principal Judge Family Court, Fatehpur to decide an application under Section 126(2), Cr.P.C. within stipulated period.
Learned counsel for the applicant does not want to press the prayer for issuing direction to decide the application under Section 126(2), Cr.P.C. The prayer for issuing direction to decide the application under Section 126(2), Cr.P.C. is dismissed as not pressed.
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the impugned order dated 30.7.2025 has been passed without considering the facts and circumstances and position of law as law laid down by the Supreme Court in Rajnesh Vs. Neha & Anr. (2021) 2 SCC 324, wherein it has been directed that the enforcement/execution of orders of maintenance, may be enforced under Section 28A of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1956; Section 20(6) of the D.V. Act; and Section 128 of Cr.P.C., as may be applicable. The order of maintenance may be enforced as a money decree of a civil court as per the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Jai Kishan, Sandip Kumar Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sonu Yadav .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s)
provisions of the C.P.C., more particularly Sections 51, 55, 58, 60 read with
Order XXI of C.P.C. It is further submitted that the impugned order has been passed to enforce the recovery of arrears of maintenance by issuing recovery warrant against the applicant without following the procedure as provided in the Civil Procedure Code. The matter is related to settled position of law. There is no other point for
consideration except issuing recovery warrant to recover the arrears of maintenance, due to this reason, the opportunity to call the counter affidavit from the opposite party no. 2 is dispensed with. In view of the above facts and circumstances, the application is partly allowed and the order dated 30.7.2025 is, hereby, quashed. It is made clear that the court concerned may proceed to enforce or recover the arrears of maintenance amount as money decree of a civil court as per provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure as per the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Rajnesh (supra). September 24, 2025 T. Sinha NA528 No. 36979 of 2025 2 (Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.) Digitally signed by :- TRIPTI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad