ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 1952 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT, 1952
PART VII - MAINTENANCE OF DEPENDANTS
Section 141. Infirm and diseased persons.
(1) Any person who is incapacitated by infirmity or disease from supporting himself may by application in the Court of a Kathi obtain an order against any person liable in accordance with Muslim law to support him for the payment from time to time of any such sums in respect of his maintenance as may be proper.
(2) Lack of means in the respondent shall be a sufficient defence to any such application.