New Delhi, February 4

The forum of court should not be allowed to be used by one party to extort money from the other, a Delhi court has observed while dismissing a woman’s plea seeking grant of interim maintenance from her husband.

Judge Madhu Jain junked the plea and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the woman, saying it was filed only to blackmail the husband.

“Wife is highly qualified and even before filing the petition (for interim maintenance), she was working and earning. Now, there is no reason as to why she has stopped working and earning. Application has been filed only to blackmail the respondent in order to extort money,” the court said.

It said nowadays Section 125 (maintenance of wives, children and parents) of the CrPC was being used only to blackmail or to extort money. “…The present case is a glorious example of this fact,” said the court. — PTI