JUDGMENT :

Ravindra Maithani, J.

The challenge in this revision is made to the order dated 26.05.2022 passed in Criminal Misc. Case No. 214 of 2021, Km. Rashmeet Kaur v. Jitendra Pal Singh, by the court of Judge, Family Court I, Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar. By the impugned order, an application for interim maintenance filed by the respondent no. 2 (“the private respondent” – she is minor daughter of the revisionist) has been allowed and the revisionist has been directed to pay Rs. 20,000/- per month interim maintenance to her.

2. This case has a history. Initially, in the year 2012, an application for maintenance was filed by the mother of the private respondent, for herself and for the private respondent, seeking maintenance from the revisionist. It was registered as Family Suit No. 88 of 2012, Smt Saranjeet Kaur and another v. Jitendra Pal Singh (“the case”). The case was decided on 20.09.2014 and the revisionist was directed to pay total Rs. 8,000/- per month to the private respondent and her mother, as maintenance.

3. It appears that in the meanwhile, the mother of the private respondent, who was wife of the revisionist, filed an FIR against the revisionist and others, in