Can the maintenance amount be altered by the Magistrate ........

Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) 1973 Maintenence

Can the maintenance amount be altered by the Magistrate?

There can be no alteration

The Magistrate shall make alteration in the amount upon ascertainment of new facts

The Magistrate may make alteration in the allowance for maintenance upon proof of a change in the circumstances of the husband or father, as the case may be

None of the above

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Explanation:

Section 127 of Code of Criminal Procedure –
127. Alteration in allowance. (1) On proof of a change in the circumstances of any person, receiving, under section 125 a monthly allowance, or ordered under the same section to pay a monthly allowance to his wife, child, father of mother, as the case may be, the Magistrate may make such alteration in the allowance as he thinks fit in the allowance for the maintenance or the interim maintenance, as the case may be; Provided that if he increases the allowance, the monthly rate of five hundred rupees in the whole shall not be exceeded.