IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
CHITTARANJAN DASH
Monalisha Sahoo – Appellant
Versus
Anshuman Naik – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
CHITTARANJAN DASH, J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the Parties.
2. By this application, the Petitioner seeks to set aside the impugned order dated 15.04.2021 passed by the learned 1st A.D.J.-Cum-A.S.J.(P), Rourkela in Criminal Appeal No.7 of 2021, wherein the court declined to grant the interim monetary relief to the Petitioner subsequent to the period upon dissolution of the marriage of the Petitioner and the Opposite Party.
3. The background facts of the case, as borne out from the record, are that the Petitioner is the legally married wife of the Opposite Party, their marriage having been solemnised on 10.07.2011 at Rourkela. In July, 2012, the Petitioner returned to Rourkela where the Opposite Party was then employed as a Manager with M/s. Adhunik Metaliks and was also possessing ancestral property at village Karamdihi in the district of Sundargarh. The Petitioner joined St. Mary School as a teacher in September, 2013 and continued to reside with the Opposite Party. In March, 2017 she joined a coaching institute; however, such engagement was consistently objected to by the Opposite Party. It is alleged that on 23.12.2018, the Petitioner came to know that the Opposite Par
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