( 1 ) SHRI D R. Khanna, Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi, has forwarded this revision to this Court with a recommendation to increase the maintenance allowance to Ashish minor fixed at Rs. 20. 00 p. m. by Shri V. N. Chaturvedi, Sub-Divisional Magis trate, Hauz Qazi, Delhi, payable by his father Shri D C. Tewari. The learned Additional Sessions Judge has recommended that the amount be increased to Rs. 50. 00 p. m.

( 2 ). Shri Tewari was maried to Smt. Mohini Tewari, mother of Ashish minor and the minor child was born on 26th November. 1964, in Delhi. Shri D. C Tewari is stated to be working as a Librarian in the Malviya Regional Engineering College at Jaipur. According to the averments in the application for maintenance, his monthly income is about Rs. 700. 00 and he has not cared to maintain his minor child. The prayer in the application which is based on total neglect and failure of his father to maintain the minor is for payment of Rs. 300. 00 p. m.

( 3 ). The father after stating the story of his marriage with the minor s mother, pleaded in the written statement that his wife and her mother had after the marriage started persuading and coercing him to live with t