In Brief
A wife challenged her divorce decree on grounds of cruelty and desertion. The Supreme Court confirmed the dissolution of marriage but partly allowed the appeal by directing the husband to pay substantial maintenance for the minor son. Though the Court did not interfere with the lower courts' concurrent findings on cruelty and desertion due to irretrievable breakdown, it emphasized that a child's right to maintenance from his father continues regardless of marital dissolution. The father was directed to pay ₹50,000 monthly for the son's maintenance and education, with arrears recoverable from his Army salary through deduction orders."
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