IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.10997 of 2007 PRAS PANDIT @ PARASH PANDIT Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ANR ----------- 5 4.9.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as also O.P. No. 2 and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The grievance of the petitioner is against order dated 7.12.2006 passed in Misc. Case No. 41 of 2005 by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, East Champaran at Motihari, whereby he has enhanced the grant of maintenance from Rs. 300/- to Rs. 1000/- and has continued with the order of the husband petitioner paying the wife – O.P. No. 2, 7 maunds of cereals per year. The submissions advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that there was no occasion for the learned Principal Judge, to modify or enhance the amount of maintenance and that she had no requirement for any residential property as she was living in the ancestral house of the petitioner where she had all the facilities. On the other hand it has been submitted by the learned counsel for O.P.No. 2 that the amount of Rs. 300/- per month was insufficient in the present day standard and 7 maunds of cereals in a year was also too meager and as such a petition under section 127 Cr.P.C. had been filed for enhancing the amount of maintenance. I see no impropriety or illegality in the impugned order of the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, East Champaran at Motihari since he has enhanced the maintenance amount from Rs. 300 to Rs. 1000/- which appears to be very reasonable. - 2 - In that view of the matter I find no merit in this application which is accordingly dismissed. Spd/- (Abhijit Sinha, J.)