JUDGMENT :-

(Prayer: Criminal Revision Petition has been filed under Section 397 and 401 of Cr.P.C, to call for the records and set aside the order dated 31.01.2017 made in M.C.No.22 of 2016 on the file of the Family Court, Tirunelveli.)

1. The Criminal Revision Case is directed against the order passed in M.C.No.25 of 2016, dated 31.01.2017 on the file of the Family Court, Tirunelveli.

2. It is not in dispute that the marriage between the revision petitioner and the first respondent was solemnized on 05.11.2013 in Ganga Auditorim at Kollam and that due to their wed-lock, the respondents 2 and 3 were born to them. It is also not in dispute that subsequently there arose disputes and misunderstanding between them, that they are living separately and that the respondents 2 and 3 have been under the care and custody of the first respondent.

3. The first respondent for herself and for her minor daughters, by invoking Section 125 of Cr.P.C, filed the case in M.C.No.25 of 2016, claiming monthly maintenance at Rs.20,000/- for herself and monthly maintenance at Rs.15,000/- each to her minor daughtes, on the file of the Family Court, Tirunelveli. The revision petitioner has filed a counter state