THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.641 of 2004 JUDGMENT: This Criminal Revision Case is directed against the order, dated 6.1.2004 passed in Crl.R.P.No.2 of 2003 by the I Additional Sessions Judge, Adilabad. The respondents 1 and 2 herein filed M.C.No.29 of 2000 before the Special Judicial First Class, Magistrate, Mobile (PCR), Adilabad, under Section 125 Cr.P.C. seeking maintenance of Rs.500/- to each of them from the petitioner. The Court below dismissed the said M.C. Challenging the said order, the respondents 1 and 2 preferred revision in Crl.R.P.No.2 of 2003 before the I Additional Sessions Judge, Adilabad. The learned Sessions Judge granted maintenance to the wife at the rate of Rs.300/- per month, but refused to grant maintenance to the 2nd respondent. Challenging the maintenance awarded to the 1st respondent, the petitioner-husband filed the present revision case. It is the case of the petitioner that after taking divorce, the 1st respondent married another person and therefore, she is not entitled for any maintenance. Heard. The relationship between the parties is not in dispute. But however, it is the contention of the petitioner that divorce took place between them and that the 1st respondent married another person. From the perusal of the order impugned, it appears that there is no evidence to establish that the divorce took place between the parties and that the 1st respondent married another person. When once the wife approached the Court stating that she is unable to maintain herself, in my considered view, it is the duty of the Court to award maintenance basing on the evidence available. Further, the amount awarded by the Court below is not excessive. Therefore, it cannot be said that the order of the Court below is bad. But however, in the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is of the view that the amount of maintenance can be reduced from Rs.300/- to Rs.200/- p.m. Accordingly, the petitioner is directed to pay maintenance at the rate of Rs.200/- p.m., to the 1st respondent-wife. Except to the above modification, in all other respects, this revision case stands dismissed. _______________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 24th March, 2011 Nn THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.641 of 2004 24.3.2011