1. The parties married on 20.09.2009. Petitioner in W.P. No. 36449/2014 filed M.C. No. 93/2013 in the Family Court, Mysore, under S.13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short 'the Act'), to pass decree of divorce. Subsequently, petitioner in W.P. No. 25652/2014 filed MC No. 160/2013, under S.9 of the Act, to order restitution of conjugal rights. I.A. No. 2 was filed in M.C. No. 93/2013, to direct payment of interim alimony by the husband. Finding no merit in the objections filed to the said application, Family Court allowed I.A. No. 2 in part and directed the husband to pay interim maintenance at Rs. 3,500/- p.m. with effect from 03.05.2014. That apart, Rs. 10,000/- was awarded towards litigation expenses. Assailing the said order, husband has filed WP No. 25652/2014 and wife has filed W.P. No. 36449/2014.

2. Mr. K. Abhinav Anand, learned advocate for the petitioner in WP No. 25652/2014, contended that the petitioner in WP No. 36449/2014 having withdrawn from the company of her husband, without any justifiable reason, is unjustified in seeking interim maintenance from his client, who is practising as a junior advocate, in the chamber of a senior advocate and has no earnin