HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.146 of 2008 ORDER: This criminal petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to quash the order dated 06.12.2007 passed by the learned Family Judge at Warangal, in Crl.M.P.No.226 of 2007 in M.C.No.11 of 2007, awarding interim maintenance of Rs.1,500/- p.m. to the 1st respondent herein. 2. Facts of the case, in brief, are that the 1st respondent, who is wife of the petitioner herein, filed M.C.No.11 of 2007 on the file of the Family Court, Warangal, against the petitioner, seeking maintenance of Rs.2,500/- p.m. Along with the maintenance case, the 1st respondent also filed Crl.M.P.No.226 of 2007 seeking interim maintenance. The court below, after hearing both sides, by an order dated 06.12.2007, allowed the Crl.M.P.No.226 of 2007 in part, awarding interim maintenance of Rs.1,500/- p.m. to the 1st respondent, Questioning the said order, the petitioner filed this criminal petition. 3. This Court, while ordering notice before admission to the 1st respondent, granted interim suspension of the order impugned in this criminal petition, for a period of four weeks, by an order dated 21.01.2008. Subsequently, as the notice sent to the 1st respondent was returned un-served, this Court ordered fresh notice to the 1st respondent on 22.12.2009. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has no agricultural lands and he is not cultivating any other lands and he is eking out his livelihood by doing toddy tapping and the income derived therefrom is insufficient to maintain himself and he has old aged parents. He further submitted that the court below erred in awarding interim maintenance of Rs.1,500/- p.m. which is excessive and based on assumption. 5. Having considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and having gone through the order impugned in this criminal petition, this Court reduces the interim maintenance of Rs.1,500/- p.m. awarded by the court below to the 1st respondent, to Rs.1,250/- p.m. In all other aspects, the order of the court below is confirmed. 6. Accordingly, the criminal petition is disposed of. _____________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA 22nd April, 2010 CBS HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.146 of 2008 (Dismissed) Date:22-04-2010 CBS