( 1 ) THE petitioner claimed maintenance from her husband in 1948 and filed an application under Section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The respondent who is her husband was drawing a salary of Rs. 124. 00 per mensem in 1948 when the monthly allowance payable to the petitioner was fixed at Rs. 35. 00 per mensem. The respondent was a teacher and seems to have risen to the post of Principal of a High School in Secunderabad in 1958, The petitioner thereupon filed an application under Section 489 Cr. P. C. , for alteration of the monthly allowance payable to her on the ground that there has been a change in the circumstances of her husband and that she is therefore entitled to enhanced allowance.

( 2 ) THE Judicial 1st Class Magistrate, Kurnool, found that it is common ground that the respondent is now earning Rs. 470. 00 p. m. , and that when the order of allowance was made in 1948 the salary of the respondent was only Rs. 124. 00 p. m. It was also found that the respondent has been living alone even from the time the petitioner remained away from him. Thus the respondent is not burdened with more responsibility in his household affairs, but he may have no doub