JUDGMENT

K.N. Misra, J. - This revision is directed against the impugned judgment and order dated 781985 passed by the IVth Additional District Judge, Lucknow, by which application under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, for short, 'the H.M. Act', moved by the defendantrevisionist has been rejected.

2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that respondent Shailendra Kumar Shukla filed a suit for divorce under section 13 of the H.M. Act, seeking dissolution of marriage which had taken place with the revisionistdefendant on 1721972, on the ground that the defendantrevisionist is leading adulterous life with her Jeeja Sri S. N. Trivedi, who was posted at Police Station, Malihabad, District, Lucknow. This petition was contested by the defendantrevisionist refuting all the said allegations regarding desertion and adultry. An application was moved by the defendant revisionist under Section 24 of the H.M. Act, asserting that she has no independent source of income to support herself and her child nor she can meet the expenses of the litigation. It was also stated that the plaintiff's monthly income is about Rs. 900. She thus prayed that she be awarded pendente lite a monthly mainten