IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA C.R. No.76 of 2008 SHREEMAN NARAYAN SINGH Versus SULI DEVI ----------- 2 8/9/2008 Heard counsel for the petitioner. In the opinion of this Court an amount of Rs. 1,000/- per month by way of maintenance pendent-elite and Rs. 3,000/- as a cost of litigation cannot be said to be either excessive or illegal especially when this petitioner, who has got the divorce case filed and even before the divorce was granted is said to have married one Baby Kumari, an allegation which has also not been denied by him in the court below. That being the position, this Court would not interfere with the impugned order and accordingly this application is dismissed with a direction to the petitioner to pay both arrears and current amount of maintenance as directed by the court below in the impugned order within a period of one month, failing which the court below will be entitled to take coercive steps against the petitioner. ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J. ) Abhay Kumar