THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.299 OF 2008 DATED 17th FEBRURAY, 2011. BETWEEN : Jonnalagadda Durga Rao .. Petitioner and Jonnalagadda Krishna Bharathi & others ..Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.299 OF 2008 ORDER: Petitioner approaches this Court with a prayer to set aside the order dated 22.08.2007 passed in Crl.R.P.No.44 of 2007 by the Principal Sessions Judge, West Godavari at Eluru, wherein the learned Judge dismissed the revision preferred by the petitioner herein. Heard. When the first and second respondents herein approached the trial Court for grant of maintenance in M.C.No.123 of 2006 the learned Magistrate by order dated 06.12.2006 granted monthly maintenance of Rs.1,000/- and Rs.500/- to them respectively and when the petitioner herein preferred revision, the same was dismissed by the learned Sessions Judge by impugned order. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is working in APSRTC as Security Guard and getting meagre salary and it is becoming very difficult for him to pay the maintenance as ordered by the Courts below. He further submitted that the first respondent herein is also working in a STD booth and getting considerable salary. Having heard the submissions of both the counsel and perused the material on record, this Court is of the view that it would be suffice to reduce the maintenance amount granted to the first respondent herein while confirming the maintenance granted to the second respondent herein. Hence, the monthly maintenance amount granted by the Courts below to the first respondent herein is reduced from Rs.1,000/- to Rs.750/- and the monthly maintenance amount granted to the second respondent is hereby confirmed. However, the petitioner shall pay the reduced monthly maintenance from the month of February, 2011, and he shall pay the arrears of maintenance, if any, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 17.02.2011 sur