ORDER

D.J. Moharir, J. - This appeal under section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984 is directed against the order passed by the learned Judge of the Family Court at Bombay on a petition under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

2. The original petitioner Hulgavva claiming to be the wife of the original Gangaram Yellappa Kunchikurve applied to the Court for grant of maintenance to herself as also the six children which were born to her from the respondent husband. In her application she averred that she had been residing as the legally wedded wife of the respondent Gangaram in a hut at Kumbharwada, Dharavi along with her children and this hut belonged to her. A few months before the presentation of the application under Section 125, Cr. P.C. to the Metropolitan Magistrate at Bombay, the husband had started insisting upon selling away the hut. She had opposed this move which resulted in the commencement of her ill-treatment. The respondent-husband has taken another woman in his keeping and was living with her in another hut at a short distance from the petitioner's wife's hut. The petitioner alleged, this amounted to a refusal to maintain both as regards her and the children