The applicants have filed this revision against the order dated 19.12.1996 of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Multai, District Betul, in Criminal Revision No. l/96, by which the learned Judge has set aside the order dated 28.1.1995 of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Multai in Misc. Criminal Case No. 70/90 to the extent the order directed payment of maintenance to applicant No. 1 in the sum of Rs. 300/-. The learned Additional Sessions Judge has also modified the direction for payment of maintenance at the rate of Rs. 200/- per month to the applicant No.2 and reduced it to Rs. 150/- per month.

As per the case of the applicants, the applicant No. 1 was married to the non-applicant in the year 1978 and from this marriage a son, applicant No. 2 Meghraj, was born. After about two and a half years of their marriage, while the applicant No. 1 was pregnant, she had come to her parents, house where applicant No.2 was born. According to the applicant No.1, the sister of her husband had been married to her brother, who had fallen into a well and died at the time when the applicant No. 2 was hardly a month old. On hearing about the death of his sister, the non