JUDGMENT - Puranik S.W., J.:- By this Criminal Revision Application the applicant seeks quashing of the proceedings attaching his salary amounting to Rs. 5450/ -issued by Judicial Magistrate, First Class, 8th Court, Nagpur in Miscellaneous Criminal Case No. 34/82 (Ramkali v. Jagoo) on an application filed by the present non-applicant for enforcement of the order of maintenance.

2. The applicant is the husband, while the non-applicant No. 1 is his wife and the non-applicant Nos. 2 and 3 are the children out of their wedlock. The non-applicant No.1 had filed proceedings under section 125 of Criminal Procedure Code, claiming maintenance for herself and her minor children-non-applicant Nos. 2 and 3. The proceedings were contested by the husband-applicant and after recording of evidence, the Trial Court came to the conclusion that the~ non-applicant No. I was entitled to grant of maintenance as also her two minot” children. The Trial Court directed the applicant husband to pay Rs. 175/- per month as maintenance allowance to non-applicants.

3. The applicant husband, however, failed to pay the arrears of maintenance to the non-applicants and Sit is thereafter that the wife non-applicant

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