PRAYAGRAJ, Dec. 30 -- The Allahabad high court has held that interim maintenance too must be granted from the date of application and decried the delays in deciding such cases.

"Permitting a woman to live in penury, while her application for interim maintenance is decided, cannot be the intent of the law," the court observed.

Allowing an application filed under Section 528 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) by the applicant-wife, Sonam Yadav, Justice Rajiv Lochan Shukla emphasised that pendency of the proceedings in court, without any order in favour of the litigant, should not be to the disadvantage of the litigant.

The petitioner's grievance was that the principal judge, family court, Kaushambi, had granted her interim mai...