England make 364/9 against Bangladesh in World Cup clash
Dharamsala (PTI): Dawid Malan's superb 140 aong with half-centuries from Jonny Bairstow (55) and Joe Root (82) second consecutive half-century powered England to a formidable 364/9 against Bangladesh in their World Cup league stage match here on Tuesday.
Malan cracked 16 fours and five sixes to make 140 off only 107 balls while Root, who looked set for his first ton this World Cup, was dismissed for after hitting eight fours and a six.
The pair added 151 for the second wicket after Malan and Bairstow (52 off 59 balls, 8x4s) put on 115 runs for the opening stand.
England looked set for a total around 400, but to their credit, Bangladesh fought back with a flurry of wickets in the last 10 overs.
Mahedi Hasan was the pick among bowlers with 8-0-71-4 while left-arm seamer Shoriful Islam claimed three wickets.
Brief scores: England 364/9 in 50 overs (Jonny Bairstow 52, Dawid Malan 140, Joe Root 82; Shoriful Islam 3/75, Mahedi Hasan 4/71) vs Bangladesh.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
