JUDGMENT

Date : 30-09-2020

1. The Court proceedings have been conducted by means of creating a Virtual Court with the help of technology.

2. This criminal petition has been preferred by the petitioner, namely, Sri Bijoy Seal, under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 , seeking quashment of the Judgment and Order dated 12.07.2012, passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Dibrugarh in Criminal Revision No. 03(1)/2012. The petitioner and the opposite party, namely, Smt. Sefali Seal were husband and wife were married on 02.05.1995.

3. Because of differences which arose between them, the petitioner and the opposite party started to stay separately since the year 2004. The wife/opposite party filed an application under Section 125 Cr.P.C., claiming maintenance from the petitioner/husband @ Rs.5,000/- per month. The case was registered as Case No. 01M/2004 before the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dibrugarh. The learned Court of learned Additional CJM, Dibrugarh by order dated 06.07.2006 on contest allowed the petition and directed the petitioner/husband to pay maintenance allowance @ Rs.1,200/- from the date of filing of the maintenance petition i.e. 19.01