SHIV KUMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) V. D. Chaturvedi, J. This Criminal Revision has been filed against the judgment and order dated 21-4-2005 whereby the Principal Judge, Family Court, Moradabad allowed the petition No. 7 of 2004 (under Section 125 Cr. P. C.) directing the revisionist to pay the maintenance allowance @: Rs. 300/- per month to respondent No. 2 Smt. Neeru and the, maintenance @ Rs. 2500/- per month to each of the respondent Nos. 3 and 4.

(2.) THE relevant facts are briefly that the respondent No. 2 Smt. Neeru alongwith her daughters Km. Mili and Km. Pragya filed a petition under Section 125 Cr. P. C. against the revisionist stating therein to the effect that her marriage with Shiv Kumar Singh (revisionist) was held on 19-7-1999 in accordance with the Hindu rites and rituals; that during the said wedlock she gave birth to two daughters Km. Mili and Km. Pragya; that on 19-5-2003 Shiv Kumar Singh has beaten her and her daughters and turned them out of his house. That later he had beaten her even at her paternal house; that after her said marriage with Shiv Kumar she came to know that he was already married with another lady; that Smt. Neeru (respondent No. 2) was unemployed and was unable to maintain herself and her children; that Shiv Kumar had 150 Bighas of land, a Metha Dlant and a house at Rampur and thus was capable of maintaining her and her children.