
Calcutta HC’s Stance on First Wife’s Rights Amidst Second Marriage!
The Calcutta High Court has ruled that a husband who has married for the second time is still duty bound to provide for his first wife. The court made this ruling in a case involving a woman named Sefali Khatun, who was married to her husband in 2003. The couple had two children together. However, in 2012, the husband married another woman and drove Sefali out of the matrimonial home. Sefali filed a petition in the family court seeking maintenance from her husband. The family court ordered the husband to pay Rs. 6,000 per month as maintenance to Sefali. However, the husband challenged the order in the sessions court, which reduced the maintenance amount to Rs. 4,000.… Read more