SHAMPA DUTT (PAUL)
Bhaskar Sehanabish – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Shampa Dutt (Paul), J. - The present revision has been preferred against the Judgement and Order dated 15th March, 2018 passed by the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate in Misc. Case No. 17 of 2015 filed by the opposite party No. 2 i.e. the wife under Section 127 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
2. The petitioner's case is that pursuant to an application under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the wife, the opposite party No. 2 and her son, a maintenance proceeding being M.R. 76 of 2009 was started before the Learned Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mathabhanga.
3. The petitioner being the opposite party in the said proceeding being Misc. Case No. 76 of 2009 filed his written objection denying all the material allegations and also specifically contending that not the petitioner and his family members but the wife i.e. the opposite party No. 2 herein used to misbehave with the petitioner and his family members since she was not willing to stay jointly at her matrimonial house.
4. On 30th May, 2012 the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mathabhanga passed a Judgement/Order directing the petitioner to pay maintenance allow
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The main legal point established in the judgment is the court's discretion in modifying maintenance orders and the consideration of the financial status and obligations of the parties.
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