Maintenance for Divorced Women: The Paradox of Section 125(4) CrPC

By Shubh Arora Section 125 is one of the very few sections in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 that deal with substantive law. The section often comes in controversy because of the numerous parallels in personal law that deal with maintenance. The section is not gender-neutral, unlike Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act, …