JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Mr. Y. Johnson Singh, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner. Heard also Mr. Liaquat Ali, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. This Criminal Revision Petition has been filed by the petitioner against the order dated 28.08.2018 passed in Criminal (Maintenance) Case No. 19 of 2015 on the file of the Family Court, Thoubal, Manipur.

3. The petitioner is the respondent/opposite party and the respondent herein is the petitioner in Criminal (Maintenance) Case No. 19 of 2015.

4. The respondent had filed Criminal (Maintenance) Case No. 19 of 2015 under Section 125 of Cr.P.C. seeking maintenance from the petitioner herein alleging that she was married to the petitioner by performing Nikah on 26.05.2013 and after Nikah, both lived together in their matrimonial home at the house of the petitioner. However, some time in the month of August, 2015, the respondent was compelled to leave the matrimonial home by the petitioner and since then, the respondent has been living at her parental home. It is alleged that thereafter, the petitioner married another woman as his second wife. Despite repeated requests made by the respondent to pay maintenance, the petitioner refused to m