Petitioner, Kandavelu Mudaliar seeks to revise the order of the Chief Presidency Magistrate, Egmore, Madras directing him to pay a sum of Rs. 20 per month to his illegitimate child born through the respondent. The petitioner employed as a charge hand in Switch Gear department in Larson and Toubro Limited, Madras, joined duty in Madras on 2nd January, 1965 after he was transferred from Bombay and was living with his father. The respondent, Rajammal, was working as a maid servant, in the house of the petitioner’s father, Kalyanasundara Mudaliar for three years till a year prior to this case. Both the petitioner and the respondent became intimate and this resulted in the respondent Rajammal becoming pregnant. The respondent, Rajammal complained about it to the petitioner and he gave her some pills to abort the child, but the attempt was not successful. After the birth of the child, the petitioner refused to have anything to do with the respondent, Rajammal.

Rajammal examined herself and one, Govindammal in support of her case. The petitioner, Kandavelu Mudaliar examined himself alone on his side. The learned Chief Presidency Magistrate did not accept the evidence of Govindammal