ORAL JUDGMENT

1. Heard.

2. ADMIT. Taken up for final disposal by consent of the learned Advocates for the parties.

3. In this revision application, challenge is to the judgment and order dated 28.01.2022, whereby the petition under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for grant of maintenance made by the non-applicant/wife bearing Petition No. E-194/2016 was allowed by the learned Judge of Family Court No.2, Nagpur.

4. The applicant/husband was the respondent and the non- applicant/wife was the petitioner before the Family Court. In this judgment, the parties would be referred by their nomenclature before the Family Court.

5. The petitioner and the respondent got married on 05.07.2010. The petitioner pleaded that after marriage, the respondent made demand of Rupees One lakh. The parents of the petitioner could not pay the amount. The petitioner was, therefore, subjected to ill-treatment and torture. She was finally driven out of the house by the respondent. It is further stated that in order to preserve the marriage, the amount of Rupees One lakh was paid by cheques. Despite encashing the cheques, the ill-treatment went unabated. The petitioner, therefore, claimed maintenance @