1. The first respondent claims to be the wife of the petitioner. According to her, the respondents 2 and 3 were born to her through the petitioner. On the allegation that the petitioner has neglected them and to maintain them, the respondents filed M.C.No.40 of 2013 before the learned Judicial Magistrate, Sivakasi, under Section 125 Cr.P.C. claiming a sum of Rs.3,500/- each towards maintenance of the respondents 2 and 3 alone.

2. According to the admitted case of the parties, the first respondent was already married to one Mr.Pandian. But, later on, they got separated. Thereafter, according to the first respondent, the petitioner married her. It is the further case of the first respondent that out of the said wedlock, the respondents 2 and 3 were born. But, the case of the petitioner is otherwise. According to him, he was already married to one Chandra and the said marriage is still subsisting. He has further admitted that he had illicit intimacy with the first respondent for some time, out of which, the 2nd respondent was born. But after the birth of the second respondent, there was no love-lost between them and as a result, the petitioner had no access to the first res