LUCKNOW, Aug. 31 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has denied maintenance to a wife, who works as a software engineer and earns Rs.73,000 salary with investment in a flat worth Rs.80 lakh. The court held that she is capable of maintaining herself.

Justice Saurabh Lavania passed the order on August 20 in response to a revision petition filed by the husband challenging the final order passed by the principal judge, Family Court, Lucknow in a case registered under Section 125 Cr.P.C.

Noting that the wife has purchased a flat of Rs.80,43,409 in Bakshi Ka Talab, Lucknow, the high court reversed the family court's direction to pay Rs.15,000 per month to the wife, while refusing to interfere with the direction to pay Rs.25,000 p...