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J&K&L High Court: No parallel recovery after warrant to Collector
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court held that a Judicial Magistrate cannot simultaneously pursue recovery of maintenance through the police after issuing a levy warrant to the District Collector under…
The Story in Brief
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court held that a Judicial Magistrate cannot simultaneously pursue recovery of maintenance through the police after issuing a levy warrant to the District Collector under Section 421(1)(b) CrPC. Justice Rahul Bharti observed that once the warrant is issued to the Collector, the court's role pauses and recovery proceeds as land revenue arrears. The ruling came on a petition by District Collector Shishir Gupta challenging a show-cause notice from a magistrate who had later issued a separate warrant to the police. The court found no legal basis for such parallel recovery.
The Indian Opinion
The usual narrative pits a zealous judiciary against a dilatory bureaucracy, but the High Court's ruling cuts through the blame game. The law clearly assigns recovery to the Collector once the warrant is issued; the magistrate's parallel warrant was legally unsound. The real test will be whether Collectors now act with urgency so that maintenance orders are enforced without courts feeling the need to step back in. If they do, this judgment will reduce procedural friction for women and children seeking maintenance.
Source: livelaw.in
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