IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT GWALIOR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE PUSHPENDRA YADAV CRIMINAL REVISION No. 829 of 2024 SHRI MANISH SHARMA Versus SMT MALA SHARMA AND OTHERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Shri Harshvardhan Topre - Advocate for the petitioner. Shri Brijendra Singh Gaur – Advocate for respondents.

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WITH CRIMINAL REVISION No. 97 of 2024 SMT. MALA SHARMA AND OTHERS Versus MANISH SHARMA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Shri Brijendra Singh Gaur - Advocate for the petitioners.

Shri Harshvardhan Topre – Advocate for respondents.

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ORDER RESERVED ON : 12.02.2026 ORDER PASSED ON : 27/02/2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ORDER

Heard finally.

2. This order shall dispose of CRR No.829/2024 filed by husband-

Manish Sharma and CRR No.97/2024 filed by wife-Mala Sharma.

3. Both the criminal revisions arise from an order dated 23.11.2023 passed by the learned Additional Principle Judge, Family Court, Gwalior in MJCR No.20240/2018. By the said order, an application u/s 125 of Cr.P.C filed by the wife was allowed, whereby maintenance of Rs.20,000/- per month to wife and Rs.10,000/- per month each to two minor children (total Rs.40,000/-) was granted.

4. Criminal Revision No.829/2024 has been filed by husband challenging the award of maintenance of Rs.20,000/- per month to wife and Rs.10,000/- per month to each minor children, whereas CRR No.97/2024 has been filed by the wife for enhancement of maintenance amount.

5. The necessary facts for the disposal of the present revisions in short are that the respondent/wife had filed an application u/s 125 of Cr.P.C alleging that her marriage with petitioner/husband was solemnized on 24.06.2012 in Gwalior as per Hindu rights and custom. Out of said wedlock, respondent no.2 and 3 were born. After marriage, when she went to her matrimonial home, after sometime the husband- and his family members began demanding a car in dowry and started harassing her physically and mentally. In the year, 2014, when she was pregnant and the petitioner/husband was on duty, her father-in-law and both brothers-in-law physically assaulted her and drove her out of the house in the same cloths she was wearing. On 18.01.2015, she gave birth to a son at her parental home.

6. Thereafter, when her father tried to explain matters to petitioner and his family, the petitioner began living separately with respondent/wife in Dindayal Nagar, but even there he continued to harass her physically and mentally. It was further mentioned in the application that in May, 2016 she gave birth to a daughter and when the petitioner/husband came on leave, he took her to matrimonial home at Bhagat Singh Nagar. In matrimonial home again in-laws pushed and beat her and said that she would not be allowed to enter the house unless the dowry demand was fulfilled. They also obtained her signature on blank papers. She, thereafter, submitted a written complaint at P.S, Gola Ka Mandir on the basis of which a dowry case was registered against the petitioner and his family members.

7. It was further submitted that after a compromise, she went to live with her husband, but again her in-laws removed all her ornaments and harassed and assaulted her over dowry. In 2018 she was driven out of the house with both the children in the same cloths she was wearing. On the said premise she had filed an application u/s 125 of Cr.P.C and further stated that she has no source of income. The petitioner is employed in Merchant Navy service and his monthly income is Rs.2 lakhs per month and, thus, prayed for Rs.1 lakh per month as maintenance for her and two children, from the petitioner/husband.

8. The petitioner filed reply and