BINOD KUMAR ROY, M. L. SINGHAL, JJ.

( 1 ) THIS is a wifes appeal under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984 assailing the validity of order dated 13. 5. 1997 passed by the Judge. Family Court. Allahabad in Case No. 216 of 1991 filed by the husband-respondent seeking divorce of the appellant under the provisions of Section 13 of Hindu Marriage Act. By the impugned order the Judge, Family Courts has directed the husband-respondent to pay in all a sum of Rs. 1,000 towards litigation expenses within seven days therefrom. By another part of the same order, the husband-respondent was directed to pay to the appellant, from the date of the order, a sum of Rs. 400 per month to the appellant by way of interim maintenance. By another part of the same order, the husband-respondent was also directed to pay to the wife-appellant a sum of Rs. 300 each towards interim maintenance to their minor children Prashant Sen Gupta and Pallavi Sen Gupta during the pendency of the case.

( 2 ) SRI Amit Kumar learned counsel for the husband-respondent raises a preliminary objection in regard to the maintainability of this appeal under Section 19 of the Act submitting that orders impugned are interlocutory

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