(1.) In view of various conflicting decisions of a number of Single Judges, the Hon'ble the Chief Justice has referred the following Question for being answered:-
(2.) The aforesaid Notifications read as under:
(3.) By virtue of Section 46 of the Bombay Court Fees Act, 1959, the Government of Maharashtra issued a notification dated 1/10/1994, remitting the court fees payable by women litigants on any of the plaints, applications, petitions, memoranda of appeals or any other documents specified in the first and second schedules to the said Act to be filed in any civil, family or criminal court in respect of cases relating to (a) maintenance (b) property disputes (c) violence (d) divorce.