In the High Court at Calcutta Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri CO/173/2024 DILIP SHARMA VS PUJA AGARWALA @ PUJA SHARMA Mr. Arnab Saha, …for the petitioner Mr. Milindo Paul, Mr. Nabankur Paul, Mr. Bedasruti Bose, Ms. Sutapa Sen Paul, Mr. Bodhisatya Ghosh, Mr. Subham Das, ….for the respondent This revisional application is directed against an order dated 31 August, 2024 passed in an application under section 24 of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

Briefly, in an application under section 24 for pendent lite maintenance the Learned Additional District Judge, 2nd Court, Siliguri had directed that the petitioner husband to pay the respondent wife a sum of Rs. 15,000/- per month as alimony alongwith Rs. 2,500/- as litigation costs.

The applicant challenges the impugned order on the ground that the same has been passed without considering any of the facts and circumstances of this case. It is alleged by the petitioner husband that fraud and injustice has been perpetrated against him in passing of the impugned order. The respondent wife was a citizen of Nepal. Moreover, 27 days after solemnization of the marriage, the respondent wife carried away her gold ornaments and her personal belongings to her matr