1. This revision is against an order of the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Alwaye under S.488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Dr. Chathukutty, the revision Petitioner, is an Ezhava aged 72. After retirement from the Cochin State Service he started a private clinic at Cannanore. Respondent No. 1, Janaki Amma, is a Nair whom the revision petitioner came into contract within his clinic, where she used to go for treatment. The revision petitioner's wife was at the time, say by about 1960, had lost her health and physically incapable of functioning as wife. This situation led the revision petitioner to form an intimacy with Janaki Amma and the intimacy resulted finally in the birth of the 2nd respondent, Sunil Kumar in the revision petitioner's clinic on 17 111963. Even after the birth of the child the intimacy continued between the petitioner and the 1st respondent; but by 1967 after the death of the revision petitioner's wife the attitude changed and he began to bestow his affections on another woman whom he actually married in the course of the year. That resulted in the desertion of the respondents and all demands made by the 1st respondent for maintenance were spurned aw