PRAYAGRAJ: A spouse is just not entitled to upkeep beneath part 125(1)(a) of Felony Process Code (CrPC) if she is gainfully employed and incomes a adequate wage to take care of herself, Allahabad excessive courtroom noticed, setting apart a household courtroom order directing a husband to pay an allowance of Rs 5,000 to take care of earnings and standing parity between the events, though the spouse was incomes Rs 36,000 monthly.Permitting a felony revision petition filed by the husband, Ankit Saha, Justice Madan Pal Singh famous that the spouse had not approached the courtroom with clear palms.She initially claimed to be illiterate and unemployed, whereas information positioned earlier than the courtroom confirmed she was a postgraduate working as a senior gross sales coordinator.Saha had challenged a Gautam Budha Nagar household courtroom’s order directing him to pay upkeep allowance to the spouse.He submitted that his spouse did, in her utility earlier than the household courtroom, explicitly claimed to be unemployed, though she was an internet designer by qualification, drawing a wage of Rs 36,000 monthly.The excessive courtroom , in its Dec 3 order, noticed that beneath part 125 CrPC, upkeep could also be awarded to the spouse when she is unable to take care of herself.However, on this case, the spouse, in her cross-examination and affidavit, had admitted having a month-to-month earnings of Rs 36,000.For a spouse with no different legal responsibility, such an quantity can’t be stated to be meagre, the courtroom stated, including that the husband, in distinction, has the distinct accountability of sustaining his aged dad and mom and assembly different social obligations.