JUDGMENT - VYAS N.D., J.:—This is a letters patent appeal preferred by the husband against the judgment and order of Ashok Agarwal, J., of this Court. By the said judgment the learned Single Judge allowed the appeal preferred by the respondent herein, namely, the wife, reversed the decision of the trial Court and enhanced the maintenance qua the children. The appellant husband has preferred this appeal being aggrieved by the said decision. Cross-objections are filed by the respondent claiming more maintenance.

2. The appellant had filed the petition for divorce in the Bombay City Civil Court praying for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion and for custody of the minor children.

3. The brief facts leading to the present litigation are as follows:

The parties, both Hindus, were married on 18th March, 1967 at Bombay according to Hindu Vedic Rites. At the time of the marriage the appellant husband was employed as a lecturer with Polytechnic College at Amravati and the respondent wife was employed as a lecturer in Ruia College, Bombay. Sometime after the marriage the wife tendered her resignation and accompanied her husband to Wardha where her in-laws were residing. After stay

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