{"id":142007,"date":"1994-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1994-07-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-lata-and-anr-vs-union-of-india-uoi-and-ors-on-7-july-1994"},"modified":"2017-12-03T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:59:10","slug":"smt-lata-and-anr-vs-union-of-india-uoi-and-ors-on-7-july-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-lata-and-anr-vs-union-of-india-uoi-and-ors-on-7-july-1994","title":{"rendered":"Smt. Lata And Anr. vs Union Of India (Uoi) And Ors. on 7 July, 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Rajasthan High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Smt. Lata And Anr. vs Union Of India (Uoi) And Ors. on 7 July, 1994<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1994 (3) WLC 56, 1994 (2) WLN 321<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: G C Mital<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: G C Mital, R Verma<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Gokal Chand Mital, C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The vires of Section 125 Cr. P.C. has been challenged on the ground that the optimum of Rs. 500\/- fixed under the provisions to award to a neglected woman is too meagre. In 1955, there was amendment in Cr. P.C. to raise the amount from Rs. 100\/- to Rs. 500\/- and since 1955 till today inspite of enactment of new Cr. P.C. 1973, the amount of Rs. 500\/- is being maintained.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. There can be no challenge to the vires of the aforesaid provisions as it is neither contrary to law nor arbitrary, but certainly the claim seems to be reasonable which can only be considered by the Parliament or by the State Legislature to make the necessary amendment either for the entire country or for the State concerned.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. We have considered the matter and our view certainly is that the amount of Rs. 500\/- is too meagre for a neglected woman in these days and the limit deserves to be increased. Let the experts in the Parliament or in the State Legislature consider this aspect and we have no doubt that if it is considered properly, the amount will be raised.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. With these observations, the writ petitions are disposed of.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. A Copy of this order be sent to the Home Secretary to the Government of India and Home Secretary to the State of Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan High Court Smt. Lata And Anr. vs Union Of India (Uoi) And Ors. on 7 July, 1994 Equivalent citations: 1994 (3) WLC 56, 1994 (2) WLN 321 Author: G C Mital Bench: G C Mital, R Verma JUDGMENT Gokal Chand Mital, C.J. 1. The vires of Section 125 Cr. P.C. has been challenged on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-rajasthan-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smt. 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