1. This first appeal from order has been filed by the wife against the order of the Subordinate judge I Class Delhi, dated 3rd September 1975, by which he has declined to grant maintenance to the appellant wife under S.24 of the Hindu Marriage Act 25 of 1955 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'), till the decision of the legality of the marriage of the appellant with the respondent.

2. The material facts of the case are that the appellant, who is said to be a Bengali lady, was first married on 7th March, 1944, to a Kashmiri gentleman, by name Dr. B. N. Zutshi from whom she had children. On 18th November, 1968, that marriage was annulled by a decree for divorce granted by the District Judge at Jaipur. There is no dispute between the parties with regard to these facts. It is also not disputed that thereafter, sometime in 1969 the appell