1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 4742 OF 2009 Alok C Sethia .. Petitioner Vs Deepika Alok Sethia .. Respondent Mr. U.P.Warunjikar, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms Smita Gaidhani, for the respondent CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 05/12/2009 PC: 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. By this writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the order dated 1.1.2009 passed by the Family Court awarding interim maintenance of Rs.5000/- per month to the respondent wife, payable from the date of application, i.e. 7.6.2008 till disposal of the main petition. Mr Warunjikar, learned counsel for the petitioner, at the outset, invited my attention to the certificate dated 31.3.2008 issued by the employer of the petitioner, stating that the petitioner was associated with them from 1.4.2007 to 31.3.2008 and submitted that since 1.4.2008 he is no more in the employment of the said employer. He further invited my attention to the returns filed by the petitioner T 2 and submitted that the amount of maintenance awarded by the Family Court deserves to be drastically reduced. I have perused the certificate dated 31.3.2008. The certificate does not indicate that after 31.3.2008 the petitioner was terminated by his employer. The petitioner has made statement stating that he lost his job after 31.3.2008. However, he has not produced any document in support thereof. Moreover, in reply to the application at Exhibit-30, the petitioner has clearly mentioned that he was employed in a firm known as Pondicherry Polymers Pvt Ltd at Chinnai. This statement was made in May 2007 which again indicates that he is in the employment. Moreover, as mentioned in paragraph 2 of the impugned order, the petitioner has sufficient income to pay Rs.5000/- per month to the respondent. In the circumstances, I do not find any substance in the writ petition. The petition, therefore, fails and dismissed as such. (D. B. Bhosale, J.) 3