JUDGMENT :

SUBHASH CHAND, J.

1. This Criminal Revision has been preferred against the impugned judgment dated 20.04.2023 passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Ranchi in Original Maintenance Case No.241 of 2017 filed under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, whereby the learned Court below had allowed the maintenance application and directed the petitioner to pay maintenance amount of Rs.15,000/-per month to the opposite party from the date of application i.e. 30.10.2017.

2. The brief facts leading to this Criminal Revision are that the maintenance application under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was filed on behalf of the opposite party-wife, namely, Sangeeta Toppo against her husband Amit Kumar Kachhap with these allegations that she was married with Amit Kumar Kachhap on 01.12.2014 at Argora, Ranchi according to their custom, rites, ritual and usages as both the parties are belonging to Sarna community. After marriage, the opposite party-wife was taken to her in-law’s house at Baridih and from the very next day the demand of car, fridge, LED TV etc. was began to raise. The petitioner-husband and his family members also began to create pressur