P. A. CHOUDHARY, J.

( 1 ) INTRODUCTION : sodam Kohinoor was married to Sodam Prasadarao and has three minor children. The husband is an employee of M/s. Bharat Heavy Plates and Vessels Limited, Visakhapatnam, which is a wholly Government owned and controlled company and is, therefore, an instrumentality of the State, within the meaning of Part III of the Constitution. The husband took on lease from that company, presumably on subsidised rates, quarter No. F-134 owned by that company where he set up his family. While the husband and wife were living together in that quarter which was made their matrimonial home by the apparent consent of the company, differences developed between them, leading to their estrangement and finally to the wife going to a court charging her husband with criminal neglect to maintain her and her three minor children. The Judicial First Class Magistrate, Kovvur, who inquired into that Charge in M. C. No. 70/80 upheld the wife s contention and granted maintenance decree. Under that order, the husband was made liable to pay maintenance at the rate of Rs. 100/- to his wife and Rs. 100/- to his minor children per month from 1-11-1981, The husband appears to have

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