SUBHASH CHAND
Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma, son of Late Ayodhya Vishwakarma – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(Subhash Chand, J.) :
1. This Criminal Revision has been preferred against the impugned judgment dated 14.06.2022 passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Dhanbad in Original Maintenance Case No.165 of 2022, whereby the petitioner-husband was directed to pay the maintenance amount of Rs.35,000/-per month to the opposite party No.2-wife, payable by 10th day of each succeeding month from the date of application i.e. 16.03.2022 and further direction was made to pay the arrears of amount within two months from the date of the order.
2. The brief facts leading to this Criminal Revision are that the maintenance petition was moved on behalf of the opposite party No.2-wife with these averments that she is legally wedded wife of petitioner-husband, namely, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma with whom her marriage was solemnized on 03.06.1995 under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. After the marriage, both lived together as wife-husband at Kamardhubi, Nirsa, Dhanbad. The opposite party No.2-wife has left the matrimonial house in the year 2011 and since then she has been residing at her parental house having no source of income to maintain her. The opposite party No.2-wife is depende
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