Maintenance not ‘debt’: Bom HC rejects Husband’s insolvency defence
Bombay High Court: In an insolvency petition raising a question that can a debtor, facing arrears of maintenance ordered under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (‘CrPC’), seek protection under the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 (‘Insolvency Act’) by being declared insolvent, a Single Judge Bench of Jitendra Jain, J., while dismissing the…

