1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1658 OF 2008 (Amol Kishor Dhawale .v. Sharda Amol Dhawale and another) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's Orders and Registrar's orders. Shri S.A. Mohta, Advocate for the applicant. Smt. Rachana Wasnik, APP for the respondent No.2. CORAM : R.V. MORE, J. 11TH JUNE, 2008 Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the respective parties. By this application, the applicant/husband challenges grant of maintenance of Rs.1200/- per month in favour of the respondent No.1/wife under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The learned Magistrate granted maintenance at the rate of Rs.1400/- per month to the respondent No.1. The applicant has challenged this order before the Sessions Court at Khamgaon and the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Khamgaon reduced this maintenance amount to Rs.1200/- per month. There is no dispute that the respondent No.1 is legally wedded wife of the respondent No.1. The applicant also did not specifically challenge the respondent No.1's inability to maintain herself. The applicant challenges the quantum of 2 maintenance only on the ground that he is unable to pay maintenance at the rate of Rs.1200/- per month. The lower appellate Court came to the conclusion that the applicant is an educated person and by today's standard he must be earning in between Rs.3500/- and Rs.4000/- per month. The finding is also recorded by the learned appellate Court that nobody except the respondent No.1 is dependent on the applicant and, therefore, maintenance at the rate of Rs.1200/- is held to be just and proper. I do not find any error or perversity in the approached adopted by the learned lower appellate Court so as to enable me to interfere in the impugned order. The criminal application is, therefore, dismissed as such. CIVIL APPLICATION NO.1659 OF 2008. Since the writ petition is dismissed, no orders in this civil application are required to be passed. CA stands disposed of as such. JUDGE *rrg.