COMMON JUDGMENT

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by T.RAJA, J.

Challenging the impugned fair and decreetal order dated 31.07.2019 passed in I.A.No.1 of 2019 in O.P.No.4009 of 2017 by the learned VI Additional Family Court, Chennai, ordering a sum of Rs.15,000/- per month towards interim maintenance to the wife and minor child, Mr.Vikas Jain, husband of Sneha Jain, has filed C.M.A.No.332 of 2021 seeking to set aside the impugned order and on the other hand, Mrs.Sneha Jain, wife of Mr.Vikas Jain, also has filed Cross Objection No.19 of 2021 seeking to enhance the interim maintenance awarded by the learned Court below.

2. For the sake of convenience, the husband will be referred to as appellant and the wife will be referred to as respondent.

3. Initially, the respondent/wife has filed O.P.No.4009 of 2017 under Section 13(1)(ia)

of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, seeking for divorce. However, pending the same, she has filed I.A.No.1 of 2019 seeking Rs.50,000/- towards monthly maintenance, Rs.50,000/- towards litigation expenses and Rs.22,00,000/- towards her stay period away from matrimonial home.

4. Learned Family Court, after considering the oral and documentary evidence placed before i