THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.12224 OF 2024

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’), assailing the order dated 24.08.2024 in Crl.M.P.No.2 of 2023 in M.C.No.50 of 2023 passed by the learned Judge, Family Court-cum-IV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Khammam.

2. The petitioner before the trial Court filed Maintenance Case seeking maintenance of Rs.40,000/- per month. Pending petition, the interim application vide Crl.M.P.No.2 of 2023 has been filed for grant of interim maintenance to the same amount. The trial Court having considered the submissions had passed the impugned order dismissing the petition. Aggrieved thereby the present petition has been filed.

3. Heard Mr.V.V.N.K.Sarath Saran, learned counsel for the petitioner, Ms.T.V.Laxmikantham, learned counsel for the respondent No.1 and Mr. Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing the respondent No.2-State.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the trial Court had failed to properly appreciate the facts and without there being any exception prescribed under Sect