JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioner has called in question order dated 14.09.2018, passed by District Mobile Magistrate, Anantnag (hereinafter referred to as the learned trial Magistrate) whereby in a proceeding under section 12 of the J&K Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2010, the petitioner has been directed to pay a monthly monetary benefit of Rs.5000/- to the respondent from the date of the application. The aforesaid order has been upheld in an appeal filed against the aforesaid order of the trial Magistrate by the Court of learned Principal Sessions Judge, Anantnag (hereinafter referred to as the Appellate Court) in terms of its order dated 30.12.2019. The said order has also been challenged by the petitioner by way of instant petition.

2. It appears from the record that the respondent had filed a petition under section 12 of the J&K Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the Act of 2010) against her husband i.e., the petitioner herein before the learned trial Magistrate. In the said application, the respondent had claimed that her husband i.e., petitioner herein, has inflicted acts of domestic violence upon her by maltreating he