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In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court hold that even the wife of a void marriage is…

In Chand Dhawan v. Jawaharlal Dhawan (1993) 3 SCC 406, the Supreme Court examined the expression "passing any decree" under Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and…

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In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court hold that even the wife of a void marriage is entitled to maintenance?

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In Chand Dhawan v. Jawaharlal Dhawan (1993) 3 SCC 406, the Supreme Court examined the expression "passing any decree" under Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and clarified that permanent alimony and maintenance can be granted when a court passes a substantive decree affecting marital status under the Act, including a decree of nullity of a void marriage under Section 11 (a principle subsequently applied in Rameshchandra Rampratapji Daga v. Rameshwari Rameshchandra Daga (2005) 2 SCC 33 and affirmed by a three-Judge Bench in Sukhdev Singh v. Sukhbir Kaur, 2025). By contrast, Amarjit Kaur v. Harbhajan Singh (2003) held that a court cannot impose a DNA test as a condition for interim maintenance under Section 24, and Ramesh Chander Kaushal v. Veena Kaushal (1978) addressed maintenance under criminal procedure vis-a-vis interim alimony in divorce proceedings.

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