This revision by the husband has been directed against the judgment and order dated 21-4-1990 passed by Km. Sadhna Rani the then IVth Additional Munsif-Magistrate, Mathura in Criminal Case No. 46/xi/90 under Section 125, Cr. P. C, directing the revisionist to pay maintenance allowance at the rate of Rs. 300/- per month to the opposite party w. e. f. 19-2-1988, the date of filing the application.

2. It has not been disputed that the opposite party is the legally wedded wife of the revisionist and that they were married in the year 1978.

3. The application was moved upon the allegations that after some time of the marriage the revisionist started ill treating the opposite party. He used to take intoxicants, gamble and have relations with other women. The opposite party objected to these habits of the revisionist whereupon she was harassed, cruelly treated, beaten and was not given food to eat. He also used to taunt that she did not bring enough dowry in the marriage. He pressurised her to bring Rs. 10. 000/- from her father as he wanted- to make a house. Her father is a class III employee in the railways and for that reason he was unable to satisfy the demand of the