IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRR(F)-1531-2025 (O&M) Date of decision: 06.11.2025 MUNISH BAJAJ ...PETITIONER VERSUS NEHA ...RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL Present: Mr. Rajiv Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner.

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SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL J.

1. Order dated 08.09.2025 of learned Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Camp Court at Khanna, in MNT125/16/2022 titled ‘Neha Vs. Munish Bajaj etc', vide which petitioner’s right to cross-examine witnesses was curtailed, has been challenged by way of this revision petition.

2. For clarity and better appreciation, the parties shall be referred to as husband and wife.

3. Learned counsel for the husband submits that out of the total arrears, petitioner had already paid Rs.2,13,500/- and only Rs.73,500/- was outstanding which also he was prepared to pay in installments. He further submits that after the order granting maintenance was passed on 15.12.2023, he had been regularly making payments w.e.f. 19.04.2024. On account of loss in business and health issues, he was unable to pay the sum of Rs.73,500/- in lump sum. The Court, ignoring his past conduct and financial constraints, illegally passed the