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Section 125-Nature of Proceedings-Proceedings under s. 125 of CrPC are Civil
Held: The position of law relating to proper jurisdiction was highlighted by this Court in Mst. Jagir Kaur and Another v. Jaswant Singh AIR 1963 SC 1521 as follows:
"The words of the sub-section are, "resides","is" and "where he last resided with his wife". Under the Code of 1882 the Magistrate of the District where the husband or father, as the case may be, resided only had jurisdiction. Now the jurisdiction is wider. It gives three alternative forums. This in our view, has been designedly done by the Legislature to enable a discarded wife or a helpless child to get the much needed and urgent relief in one or other of the three forums convenient to them. The proceedings under this section are in the nature of civil proceedings, the remedy is a summary one and the person seeking that remedy, as we have pointed out, is ordinarily a helpless person. So the words should be liberally construed without doing any violence to the language."