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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 34228 of 2025 Court No. - 74 HON'BLE SANJAY KUMAR PACHORI, J. Sri Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Pusp Raj Singh, brief holder 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 12.06.2025 as well as 11.08.2025 passed by Principal Judge Family Court, Hamirpur in Execution of Maintenance Case No. 117 of 2024 arising out of an application under Section 125(3) of Cr.P.C. whereby the recovery warrant as well as arrest warrant has been issued to recover the arrears of maintenance amount against the applicant.
Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the impugned orders 12.06.2025 and 11.08.2025 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 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 as well as arrest warrant against the applicant without following the procedure as provided in the Civil Procedure Code. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, Laxmi Devi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Jeetendra Kumar .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Opposite Party(s)
The matter is related to settled position of law. There is no other point for
consideration except issuing recovery warrant as well as arrest 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 allowed and the orders dated 12.06.2025 and 11.08.2025 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 law laid down by the Supreme Court in Rajnesh (supra). September 9, 2025 Ishan NA528 No. 34228 of 2025 2 (Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.) Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad