1. Leave to amend Paragraph - 11.

It is extremely disheartening to adjudicate the dispute like the present one, where one finds the wife going from post to pillar for getting the amount of maintenance that she had been granted along with her minor daughter. The whole purpose and object of grant of maintenance under S.125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ' the Code - ) is to ensure that the wife and the children, who have suffered desertion and cruelty, live with dignity and are not to go begging for their right of livelihood.

1.1 It is also the settled position of law that the maintenance does not mean only the food and clothing but also means a lot more. Everything, that is required by of a person to live with grace and dignity get covered and that would also include a roof over the head.

1.2 It is found glaringly here the contention raised by the husband against grant of maintenance for the period when the wife did not make any separate application for recovery of the arrears of amount of maintenance , when, in fact, the wife was struggling to get the husband served in an application for getting arrears of 8 months of maintenance.

1.3 The chronology of events, in