PRAYAGRAJ: While dealing with a case involving child marriage and a maintenance claim against a minor husband, the Allahabad high court has held that application under sections 125 and 128 criminal procedure code (CrPC) seeking maintenance against minor husband are maintainable. While upholding the decision of the family court for maintenance against the minor husband, the HC, however, reduced the amount of maintenance. While partly allowing a revision petition filed by Abhishek Singh Chauhan, Justice Madan Pal Singh in an order delivered on September 25 held that "There is no bar in entertainment of application under sections 125 and 128 CrPC filed against a minor." According to the counsel for the petitioner, the husband was 13 years old when he was married and two years later, a ch

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