The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday June 11 1928

But since his inclusion in the present Cabinet the propriety of Cabinet Ministers contributing to the press and being lavishly paid for them was called into question in Parliament and the Prime Minister and the majority of his colleagues supported the impropriety of such a course. [...] In none of these cases the necessity of the wife seeking the pardon of the husband has been considered and special importance attaches to the recent decision of the Tiombay High Court inasmuch as it holds that the view taken is not inconsisent with Hindu law and in support of this proposition reliance is placed on the judment of Chandavarkar J. in Parana v. Mahadevji 34 Bom. [...] to grave objection so far as the learned Judge's discussion of the rights of an unchaste wife to maintenance is concerned and the observations are more or less obiter dicta as the discusion of the question was not absolutely necessary for the decision of the case which was a suit by a Hindu widow who had bcome unchaste after her husband's death for recovery of arrears of maintenance under a [...] A diloyal wife ought to be deprived of his right and made to live in squalor lying on the ground and in humiliation and living on merely a ball of grain. For disloyalty a woman is purified by her monthly courses but in the case of pregnancy abandonment is enjoined as in the case of foeticide the murder of the husband or of crimes of the first degree." Tniftrirrtt ff fmnridgertramItil vfl [...] IXXIL liberal view of the matter the only instances in which possibly the adulterous wife can claim starving maintenance are when she is turned out of the house and where she elects to take the punishment in the house.