THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.2668 of 2008 ORDER: This criminal petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to quash the order dated 13.07.2007 passed in M.C.No.1 of 2007 on the file of I Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Kadapa. 2. Facts of the case, in brief, are that the first respondent herein, who is the wife of the petitioner herein, filed the above said maintenance case, seeking to grant maintenance of Rs.3000/- per month; Rs.2000/- per month towards utensils and house hold articles and Rs.2000/- per month for clothes. The court below, after hearing both sides and considering the evidence available on record, by the impugned order dated 13.07.2007, allowed the maintenance case partly and directing the petitioner herein to pay Rs.1500/- per month to the first respondent herein. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner filed this criminal petition. 3. For the first time, the matter was listed on 02.05.2008, on which date, this Court ordered notice before admission to the first respondent. Thereafter, this matter did not see the light of the day and for the first time this matter is listed before me today. Hence it is clear that the petitioner has not evinced any interest in the matter. 4. The amount of maintenance of Rs.1500/- p.m. awarded by the court below is meager. In these hard days, it is very difficult for the first respondent to maintain herself with the said amount. It is settled proposition of law that husband is to maintain his wife and children. Further, having gone through the impugned order, this Court is of the view that the court below rightly held that the first respondent is entitled for maintenance, which factual aspect cannot be gone into by this Court invoking the jurisdiction under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. 5. Accordingly, the criminal petition is dismissed. ___________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J Date: 26.04.2010 va