1. Heard Mr. Samarjit Bhattacharji, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as Ms. P. Ghatak, learned counsel appearing for the respondent.

2. By means of this petition, the petitioner has questioned the judgment dated 19.04.2016 as delivered in Criminal Miscellaneous (125)-67/2015 by the Judge, Family Court, Kailashahar, Unakoti, Tripura.

3. There is no dispute that the respondent filed a petition under Section 125 of the Cr.P.C. for maintenance allowance from the petitioner herein. The marriage between the petitioner and the respondent is also not in the penumbra of dispute. It is further not in dispute that from their wedlock a male child was born.

4. The allegation as levelled in the petition filed under Section 125 of the Cr.P.C. is that the petitioner started mental and physical harassment to the respondent at the instigation of his mother and other inmates. It has also been alleged further in that petition that the petitioner pressurised the respondent to bring Rs.50,000/- from her parents but since she failed to fulfil his demand, the petitioner became violent and during the advance stage of pregnancy, she was badly treated even beaten up. Out of