Bhattacharjee, J.:- This is a revisional application by the petitioner against the order passed against him by the learned Sessions Judge directing him to make monthly allowances for the maintenance of his wife, the respondent No. 1, and his son, the respondent No. 2, on an application filed by them under S.488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, that being the Code which is still applicable in Sikkim subject to some exceptions and modifications.

2. The impugned order having been passed on 25-2-81 and the present revisional application having been filed on 8-9-81, the first question that arises for consideration is whether the present revision is barred by time. The Law of Limitation in force in Sikkim, like the Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (now repealed and replaced by the Limitation Act of 1963), does not prescribe any period of limitation for any revisional application, civil or criminal. But in Kinzang Dahdul v. Ransul Kharga (1978 Cri. LJ 1569 at pp. 1572-1573) it has been observed by this Court as hereunder:

"By a Notification No. 3112-80/AC, dated 6th May, 1950 the period of limitation for filing Appeals, Reviews and Second Reviews has been fixed as two months fro