O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a reference by the learned Sessions Judge of Nizamabad under Sec. 438 Cr. P. C. Chand Begum, wife of Hyder Baig filed a petition under Sec. 488 Cr. P. C. against her husband claiming maintenance at the rate of Rs. 100/- per month. She alleged that her husband was always illtreating her, that she was compelled to file a petition for maintenance on an earlier occasion also and that her husband induced her to come back to him promising to treat her well but that he started illtreating her again. About three years prior to the filing of the petition he took her to the house oe her parents and left her there and did not care about her afterwards. He went to the length of foisting a false case of theft against her father and brothers; She also mentioned that the husband had married again. The husband admitted the second marriage. In the counter filed by the husband, while denying the allegations made by the wife he stated that his wife left his house of her own accord and that he was prepared to receive her back if she was willing to go and live with him. When the wife was examined as P. W; 1 she mentioned in her chief-examination that her husband had

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