JUDGMENT:- This is an appeal against the judgment and decree passed by the Subordinate Judge, Berhampur granting to respondent No. 1 maintenance at Rs. 65/- per month against her husband the appellant and creating a charge therefor on the plaint 'A' schedule properties. The appellant and respondent No. 1 were married on 11-3-1953. In the year 1955, she had an attack of filaria while she was residing in the house of her father-in-law at Berhampur. But no steps were taken for her treatment either by her father-in-law or mother-in-law and when her husband wanted to call a doctor, he was prevented from doing so by his mother. Thereafter, much against her will she was sent back to her father's house where she remained for a period of three years during which time nobody from her husband's house made any inquiries

about her health nor did they provide any funds for her treatment. On the death of her father-in-law in the year 1958, although nobody from her husband's family came to take her from her father's house at Itamati in Puri District, she with her father voluntarily came to Berhampur to attend the father-in-law's obsequies.

A few days thereafter, her mother-in-law did not want her to