JUDGMENT :

S.K. Sahoo, J.

The petitioner Nihar Ranjan Dash who is the husband of the opposite party Smt. Sunita Sarangi has challenged the impugned order dated 22.07.2015 passed by the learned Judge, Family Court, Puri in Criminal Proceeding No. 144 of 2011 in rejecting the petition dated 02.02.2015 filed by the petitioner challenging the maintainability of the proceeding under section 125 of Cr.P.C. instituted against him by the opposite party on the ground of territorial jurisdiction.

2. It is case of the opposite party that she is the legally married wife of the petitioner and her marriage was solemnized with the petitioner on 22.11.2009 as per Hindi rites and customs at Bagala Dharmashala at Puri. At the time of marriage, as per the demand of the petitioner, cash of Rs.1,00,000/-(rupees one lakh) was given to him. The opposite party then stayed with the petitioner at Delhi where the petitioner was serving at Sriram Institute of Marine Study. It is the further case of the opposite party that the petitioner was a drunkard and keeping illicit relationship with his own maternal aunt and when she came to know about the same and protested, she was tortured physically and mentally and wa