THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.2582 of 2008 ORDER: This criminal petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C is filed by the petitioner seeking to call for the records relating to the order dated 11.04.2000 passed in M.C.No.1 of 2000 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Ichapuram and to quash the proceedings thereon. 2. Facts of the case, in brief, are that the first respondent herein, who is the wife of the petitioner herein, filed the above said maintenance case, seeking to enhance the maintenance from Rs.200/-, which was already granted to her in M.C.No.13 of 1994, to Rs.900/-. The court below, after hearing both sides and considering the evidence available on record, by the impugned order dated 11.04.2000, allowed the maintenance case and enhanced the maintenance amount from Rs.200/- to Rs.500/- per month. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner filed this criminal petition. 3. For the first time, the matter was listed on 29.04.2008, and thereafter on 30.04.2008. Thereafter, this matter did not see the light of the day and for the first time this matter is listed before me today. Hence it is clear that the petitioner has not evinced any interest in the matter. 4. The amount of maintenance of Rs.500/- p.m. awarded by the court below is meager. In these hard days, it is very difficult for the first respondent to maintain herself with the said amount. It is settled proposition of law that husband is to maintain his wife and children. Further, having gone through the impugned order, this Court is of the view that the court below rightly held that the first respondent is entitled for maintenance, which factual aspect cannot be gone into by this Court invoking the jurisdiction under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. 5. Accordingly, the criminal petition is dismissed. __________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J Date: 26.04.2010 va