FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO.: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO.7920 OF 2007 ------------------------------------:---------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of : Court’s or Judge’s orders. coram, appearances, Court’s orders : or directions and Registrar’s : orders. : ------------------------------------:----------------------------------- Mr.P.G.Bhatia, for the petitioner. Respondent present-in person. CORAM: D.B.Bhosale,J. DATED: 21.02.2008 P.C.: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. This writ petition by the petitioner-husband impugns an order dated 18.7.2007 passed by the Family Court on the application No.141 of 2006 in Petition No.A-243 of 2006 filed by the respondent-wife for interim maintenance. By the impugned order the Family Court has directed the petitioner-husband to pay Rs.4000/- per month to the respondent wife as maintenance from the date of the application for the reasons recorded in the order and more particularly in paragraph nos 5 and 6 thereof. Ms.Bhatia, learned counsel for the petitioners, submits that the court has reached the conclusions on the assumptions and presumptions which are not sustainable in law. At the stage of interim maintenance if the husband does not come forward disclosing his genuine income, the court has no option but to draw its inference on the basis of the surrounding circumstances. In the present case, for the reasons recorded in the impugned order, I do not find the conclusions arrived at by the learned Judge in the impugned judgment are wrong. In the circumstances, the writ petition fails and dismissed as such. Hearing of the petition filed by the petitioner-husband for divorce is expedited. (D.B.Bhosale, J.)