Wallace, J.

1. This is a Criminal Revision Petition to revise the order of the lower Court directing the petitioner to pay a maintenance of Rs. 20 per mensem for the child of which the lower Court finds the petitioner to be the father. The grounds urged for the interference of this Court are that the Magistrate has generally neglected the principles of legal evidence and proof and has admitted evidence that was irrelevant.

2. In a case like the present, where the question at issue is, whether a certain man was the father of a certain child, it is prima facie improper to accept without corroboration, the mere statement on oath of the mother who asserts the paternity. It is so obviously to her personal benefit and interest to secure a father for her illegitimate child, who will relieve her of the costs of providing for his maintenance that her evidence in such a case cannot but be highly interested, and it would be unreasonable and improper for any Court to act merely on her own word without some independent corroboration of it such as will satisfy the Court that her claim is true. The lower Court has recognized this, principle and appears to thick that such independent corroborat