Ensuring Maintenance of Hindu Woman: A legal Study

Bilashi Shaha
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Bilashi Shaha: Islamic University, Bangladesh

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 6, 1969-1979

Abstract: The right to maintenance is an important issue in Hindu law of Bangladesh and India. This right is to be given women for securing dignity livelihood in society. This provision ensures economic support and sustains her rights to live with dignity specially in the time of the separation, abandonment or widowhood. By this article it explores the statutory and judicial mechanisms that safeguard maintenance rights emphasizing the evolving interpretations by courts to uphold gender justice. It also highlights those challenges which are obstacle to ensure maintenance of woman like delay enforcement, social stigma, lack of awareness and proper implementation of rules and regulation.

Date: 2025
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