Order on Board

1. The petitioner filed the present writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, challenging the impugned order dated 17.04.2025, passed by the learned Family Court, Surajpur, District Surajpur in Civil Suit No. 119-A/2024, whereby the learned Family Court granted the maintenance pendente lite of Rs. 20,000/- in favour of the respondent and Rs. 10,000/- as lump sum under head of cost of litigation.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner and the respondent are husband and wife, and their marriage was solemnised on 03.05.2023. After about 17-18 days of the marriage, as per their rituals, the respondent/wife came back to her parents’ house and again went to her matrimonial house in the month of June, 2023. Since the petitioner husband was working in Bangalore, he returned to his workplace, leaving the respondent’s wife at Bilaspur. However, the petitioner husband has not taken her with him, and the respondent wife has filed an application under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, for restitution of conjugal rights, on 23.08.2024. On 04.12.2024, after the petitioner-husband in the proceedings, the respondent/wife filed an applicati