JUDGMENT :

M. Sundar, J.

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Petition filed under Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 seeking to dismiss the appeal on the ground of maintainability of appeal.)

(A) PRELUDE :

The Desideratum of the expression ‘not being an interlocutory order’ in Sub section (1) of Section 19 of The Family Courts Act, 1984 (66 of 1984) is the nucleus, nay epicenter of the legal drill on hand.

2. A very interesting question arises in captioned matters and the same is as follows :

‘Whether statutory appeals under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act are maintainable as against impugned orders owing to the expression ‘....not being an interlocutory order....’ in sub-section (1) of Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984?’

Before we proceed further, we deem it appropriate to write that as the hearing progressed, it surfaced / came to light that aforementioned pivotal question is dovetailed with a further question as to whether a statutory appeal under section 28 of HM Act will lie as against an order of interim maintenance / pendente lite maintenance made under section 24