JUDGMENT :

D. DASH, J

1. The petitioner by filing this revision has assailed the judgment dated 03.01.2017 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Puri, in Crl.Appeal No. 31 of 2016 confirming the order dated 22.09.2016 passed by the learned S.D.J.M., Puri in 1 C.C. Case No. 87 of 2016 in the matter of an application under section 23 of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short, called 'the PWDV Act') granting interim maintenance of Rs. 8,000/- to the opposite parties for being paid by these petitioners by the 7th day of each succeeding month as per the English Calendar with effect from the date of initiation of the proceeding i.e. from 19.02.2016,

2. The facts of the case necessary for the purpose of the present proceeding are as under:-

The opposite party No. 1 is the daughter-in-law of the petitioners and her husband, who was the only son of the petitioners and has passed away on 5.8.2010 after suffering from Cirrhosis of Liver. The opposite party No. 2 is the minor daughter (son's daughter of the petitioners).

The case of the opposite party No. 1 is that after the death of her husband while continuing to stay with the parent-in-laws as before in that house, she w