The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that prolonged incarceration in maintenance execution cannot become indefinite punitive confinement. It released a man jailed for over five months for unpaid maintenance owed to his wife and children during the case.
The Supreme Court of India emphasized that “humanitarian considerations must be prioritized” while intervening to bring back a pregnant woman and her eight-year-old son from Bangladesh, highlighting compassion and human rights in deportation cases.
