FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET No. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.7788 OF 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s or Court’s or Judge’s orders directions & Registrar’s orders -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr.A.G. Damle i/by S.S. Gawde for the petitioner. Mr.Kishor Patil for the respondents. CORAM : J.P. DEVADHAR, J. DATED : 12TH JUNE, 2008. P.C. 1. This petition is directed against the judgment and order dated 29-6-2007 passed by the Principal Judge, Family Court, Mumbai. By the said order, the petitioner - husband was directed to pay maintenance to the respondent-wife at the rate of Rs.15,000/- per month from 8-6-2006 till disposal of the writ petition filed by the respondent-wife before the Family Court for restitution of conjugal rights. 2. The petitioner and the respondent were married on 28-3-1984. They have two children, that is, one daughter aged about 27 years and a son aged about 16 years. Since 1992, the petitioner-husband is staying separately and the Respondent-wife is looking after the children. It is not in dispute that both the children are not earning and are dependent upon the respondent - wife. It is also not in dispute that both the children are chronically ill and the respondent - wife is required to incur expenses on their medical treatment. It is on record that the respondent - wife is working as a Clerk on a salary of Rs.9,000/- per month and the petitioner who works as an Assistant Foreman in O.N.G.C. earns, as per the salary certificate, approximately Rs.52,000/- per month (page 71 of the petition). 3. In these circumstances, in my view the interim maintenance of Rs.15,000/- per month granted by the learned Principal Judge of the Family Court cannot be faulted. 4. The writ petition is dismissed with no order as to costs. J.P. DEVADHAR, J.