PAWAN KUMAR Vs. CHANCHAL KUMARI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a petition under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in which a challenge has been made to an interim Order of maintenance passed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ambala. The respondent Chanchal Kumari filed a petition under section 125, Criminal Procedure Code, for claiming maintenance from the petitioner and on the strength of the decision of the Supreme Court in Savitri v. Govind Rawat, 1985 Marriage Law Journal 561; 1986(1) Recent CR 83, prayed for interim maintenance. The learned Chief Judicial Magistrate awarded Rs. 200/ - per menses as interim maintenance to the respondent. The Petitioner filed a revision against the order of maintenance which was dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Ambala, vide his order dated March 20, 1987.

(2.) THE petitioner has prayed that both the parties have agreed to live separately by mutual agreement and in lieu of maintenance the respondent had received Rs. 10,000/ - and had waived her right to claim maintenance. The respondent has denied any such agreement and has challenged that she never received Rs. 10,000/ -. The case of the respondent is that when she was turned out of the house she was forced to sign certain papers.

(3.) THE execution of the agreement is hotly contested and both the Courts have given a finding against the petitioner.