THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED CIVIL REVISION PETITION NO. 3078 OF 2010 ORAL ORDER: This Civil Revision Petition has been filed aggrieved by the order-dated 15.6.2010 passed in I.A.No. 307 of 2010 in OP.No. 1427 of 2008 on the file of Family Court at Visakhapatnam. The husband filed the OP No. 1427 of 2008 on the file of District Judge, Family Court, Visakhapatnam, seeking divorce. Initially the husband filed OP 539 of 2008 for divorce and the wife filed T.O.P.No. 301 of 2008 to transfer the OP 539 of 2008 to Family Court at Visakhapatnam and the same was transferred and it was numbered as OP No. 1427 of 2008. Wife filed I.A.No. 307 of 2010 under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, claiming an amount of Rs. 38,000/- towards legal expenses incurred by her. That petition was allowed in part awarding an amount of Rs. 15,000/- towards the expenditure incurred by the wife and also towards legal expenses. Being aggrieved by the said order, the present Civil Revision Petition has been filed by the husband. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the court below erred in awarding an amount of Rs. 15,000/-to the wife towards expenditure and the respondent-wife has sufficient means to maintain herself and the same has been admitted by the respondent-wife in her counter filed before the Family Court at Visakhapatnam. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and also perused the entire material made available on record. As seen from the record, the petitioner-husband himself filed petition for divorce. The court below observed that the matter was earlier pending before the Family Court, Ranga Reddy and later the same was transferred to the Family Court, Visakhapatnam therefore, reasonable amount of Rs.15,000/- was awarded towards the expenditure incurred by the wife taking into consideration the expenditure incurred in engaging an advocate at Hyderabad and for her travel to Hyderabad and also of the matter getting transferred to the Family Court. Apart from this, the Court is empowered to grant expenses of legal proceedings under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, which reads as under: “Section 24 Maintenance Pendante lite and expenses of proceedings: Where in any proceedings under this Act, it appears to the Court that either the wife or the husband, as the case may be, has no independent income sufficient for her or his support and the necessary expenses of the proceeding, it may, on the application of the wife or the husband, order the respondent to pay to the petitioner the expenses of the proceeding, and monthly during the pendency such sum as, having regard to the petitioner’s own income and the income of the respondent, it may seem to the court to be reasonable.” In view of the above, I do not find any illegality or infirmity in the order passed by the Court below and the Civil Revision Petition is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, the Civil Revision Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J DATE: 23.07.2010 KA