JUDGMENT:- The question that arises in this Civil Miscellaneous Second Appeal is whether the sum of Rs. 1,200 or any part of the same, now lying in Court deposit to the credit of the respondent herein, is attachable in execution of a decree obtained by the appellant herein. The appellant is no other than the stepson of the respondent. In an original petition under the Hindu Marriage Act between the respondent herein and her husband (father of the appellant), the Court ordered the husband to pay periodically a certain sum to the respondent towards her future maintenance. In pursuance of that decree, the husband of the respondent had deposited a sum of Rs. 1,200 in Court, representing the maintenance due to the respondent accrued up to a particular date. There was another litigation between the appellant and the respondent in which the appellant has been awarded costs as against the respondent. For realising the said costs, the appellant attached the abovesaid sum of Rs. 1,200 lying in Court deposit to the credit of the respondent. The respondent filed E.A. No. 895 of 1973, out of which the present Civil Miscellaneous Second Appeal arises, for raising the attachment on the ground tha

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