OM PRAKASH NARULA Vs. SUDESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS revision is directed against an Order passed on 20-7-1982 by Mr. S. S. Raturi, Special Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun. The learned Magistrate was deciding Criminal Case no. M-36 of 1980, which arose out of an application under section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure moved by Smt. Sudesh against Om Prakash Narula, her husband.

(2.) THE contention of Smt. Sudesh in her petition was that she was married with Om Prakash Narula on 17-10-74 at Dehradun. Since after this marriage, right up from the very beginning, the behaviour of the husband was very cruel and he was often giving her a beating. Ultimately she had to take shelter at her mother's place in Dehradun in May, 1975. On 7-8-75 she gave birth to a female child. THE husband however neither took any care of the wife nor of his daughter. Sudesh bas no technical education and is generally in ill-health, and hence is unable to maintain herself, while Om Prakash gets more than Rs. 700/- per month as salary as a government servant belonging to the forest department in the State of Haryana. She however claimed a total amount of Rs. 400/-, Rs. 200/- for herself and Rs. 200/- for her daughter.

(3.) THE only evidence on the record consists of the statements of Smt. Sudesh and her mother. On behalf of the revisionist no evidence whatsoever has been adduced and even he has not entered the witness box.