This revision is preferred against the order made by the Additional First Class Magistrate at Kulitalai, in M.C. No. 58 of 1959.

The petitioner is the husband of the respondent, Angammal. The marriage took place about 20 years ago, and this couple have got two children, one of whom is sufficiently grown up to have the question of her marriage being taken up. It is very unfortunate that this couple have fallen out and they have been living separately. One of the many causes which seems to have divided the husband and wife is the fact that the wife wanted apparently to get her daughter married to her own brother and which the husband opposed. The marriage was not opposed on the ground that he was within the prohibited degrees, but apparently because the husband has taken a dislike of the brother-in-law proposed by the wife as his son-in-law. It is in these circumstances that this petition for maintenance was filed by the wife. The husband, first of all, stated that the wife had deserted him of her own accord, and, secondly, that he has always been willing to maintain her, and, thirdly, that the wife has left him in order to promote her illicit intimacy with one Velayudam who i