ROSHAN LAL Vs. PREM CHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BOTH these petitions have been preferred against the order dated 30th May, 1988, passed by the Addl. Sessions Judge, No. 2, Alwar, and hence, they are being disposed of by this common order.

(2.) PETITIONER Premchand is the son of non-petitioner Roshanlal; and the other petition is by Roshanlal, father of Premchand. Thus, the matter is between the father and the son, and that too on account of maintenance granted by the lower Court to Roshanlal, the father.

(3.) CONSIDERED the arguments. Premchand is a senior-teacher. It was the duty of Premchand to have submitted a certificate from his employer, about his salary. He has not filed any such certificate. He has simply stated that he is getting Rs. 1000/- in all, per month. A senior-teacher certainly gets more than Rs. 1000/-per month, as his basic-salary. Apart from that, he gets DA and other allowances also. But, Premchand intentionally avoided to show the correct salary and total amount that he gets per month, and this was the reason that he did not produce any certificate from his employer. It cannot be believed that a senior-teacher gets only Rs. 1,000/- per month as total emoluments. He is government servant and so this could easily be proved by Premchand that he gets only Rs. 1000/- per month, as his total emoluments. Therefore, I do not agree that the monthly salary including all that Premchand gets every month, is Rs. 1,000/- only. This shows that Premchand has not come with clean hands, before the Court. The amount of Rs. 908/- which he, according to him, receives in hand is the amount after all deductions from his salary. How much is deducted from his salary, was to be proved by Premchand But, that too he has avoided to do. Therefore, he has not come honestly, before this Court. Even believing that he gets Rs. 908-/ per month, he along with his wife and one child of 1 year, resides on rented premises So, his monthly expenses are only with regard to himself, his wife and his one 1-year child, which is not much to make him unable to give Rs. 150/- to his father. He is paying Rs. 250/- per month for his rented house. He must be getting house-rent allowance also, from the government, which he has not stated in his statement. What I feel is where was the necessity for him to hire a house of Rs. 250/- per month? Couldn't he live in a smaller house, at a lesser rent, keeping in view that he is duty-bound to maintain his old father, for whom a maintenance allowance of Rs. 150/- was granted by the court. He wants to live a better and more comfortable life instead of giving two pieces of bread to his old father, This is really a very shameful thing that a son cannot maintain his old father, by giving him Rs. 150/- per month in these hard days. These days, when the prices of the commodities are so high, a monthly allowance of Rs. 150/- for keeping a human being alive, is certainly not excessive. It cannot be imagined that a person can live simply fulfilling his bare necessities with an amount less then Rs. 150/ -. I, therefore see no justification in reducing the quantum of maintenance-allowance granted by the learned Additional Sessions Judge. Since the date of pronouncement of the order by the learned CJM on 8th July '87 till date. Premchand has not. paid a single penny to his father. This is very unfortunate that inspite of the fact that no stay was granted to Premchand by the court below, he did not make any payment of maintenance allowance to his father. This shows his male fide intention and so, he needs no sympathy. Reduction of the maintenance -allowance from Rs. 200/- to Rs. 150/- by the learned Addl. Sessions Judge, was without any reason or basis. I do not agree with the judgment of the learned Addl. Sessions Judge, while reducing the maintenance-amount.