HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. SHANKAR NARAYANA CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.2696 OF 2017 C

JUDGMENT:

The revision petitioner is respondent in F.C.M.C. No.37 of

2014, on the file of the Judge, Family Court - cum - Additional District Judge, Anantapuramu.

2. Aggrieved over the order, dated 22.03.2017, awarding Rs.10,000/- to his wife, who is respondent No.1 herein and petitioner No.1 in the aforesaid FCMC, and Rs.5,000/- to the child, who is respondent No.2 herein and petitioner No.2 in the aforesaid FCMC, towards monthly maintenance, the revision petitioner preferred the present Criminal Revision Case under Sections 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Code’).

3. Heard Sri K. Venkat Rao, learned counsel for the revision petitioner - husband, and Sri I. Venkata Prasad, learned counsel for respondent Nos.1 and 2 - wife and child.

4. The main submissions of the learned counsel for the revision petitioner are; first, there was no reason for wife and child to live separately who have on their own volition left his society and even efforts made through elders proved futile and, therefore, the learned Judge was not right in holding that the wife and child are entitled to separat