ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 1964 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT, 1963
PART IX - MAINTENANCE OF DEPENDANTS
Section 106. Maintenance of illegitimate children.
(1) Subject to this section, the court may in any case where any person neglects to maintain his illegitimate child who is unable to maintain itself, order the said person to make such monthly allowance in respect of such child as the Court thinks fit.
(2) Where the person referred to in sub-section (1) is the putative father of the child aforesaid, the order (requiring monthly payments to be made) shall not to be so made except by a Sessions Court.
(3) Such allowance shall be payable from the date of such neglect or default or from such later date as may be specified in the order and shall cease to be so payable on the date of the child's attaining the age of majority.