1. This revision case has been filed challenging the order passed by the II Additional Family Court at Chennai at 24.3.2017 made in M.P.No.198 of 2016 in M.C.No.145 of 2012.

2. The necessary facts which are required to be noticed for the disposal of this revision case are as follows:

(i) The petitioner herein is the husband and the first respondent is his wife and the second and third respondents are his minor children. The wife filed a maintenance case in M.C.No.145 of 2012 on the file of the aforesaid Court under Section 125 of Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter referred to as, 'the Code'). During the pendency of the said maintenance case, since the husband did not maintain the wife and children, and due to which, since the wife and children were suffering to maintain themselves, the wife filed an interim application in M.P.No.495 of 2012 in the said M.C.No.145 of 2012 seeking for interim maintenance from the husband.

(ii) M.P.No.495 of 2012 seeking for interim maintenance was heard and decided by the learned Judge by order dated 02.03.2015. In the said order, the learned Judge directed the husband to pay a sum of Rs.10,000/- each for the wife and two children, altoge