Published on : 02 Oct 2025, 11:24 am 3 min read

The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently questioned the propriety of allowing a woman to claim interim maintenance from her partner whom she got convicted for rape on the promise of marriage.

Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul said that it would be difficult for the Court to hold in favour of the woman in such a case.

The Court was hearing a case concerning a woman who filed a rape case against her partner, with whom she had a child.

She argued that even though they were not married, they had lived like husband and wife for a decade. Therefore, she contended that she was entitled to be treated as his wife and claim maintenance from him.

The Court, however, noted that the offence of rape would not usually arise in respe

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