IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD FRIDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.2452 of 2011 BETWEEN Kothpalli Ramakka and another. ... PETITIONERS AND Kothapalli Satish. ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioners: MR. LAKKADI DAYAKAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondent: MR. K. RAMA SUBBA RAO The Court made the following: ORDER: Petitioners, who are respondents in O.P.No.6 of 2010 before the Senior Civil Judge, Adilabad, have filed this revision seeking enhancement of interim maintenance as well as seeking the same from the date of petition as against the order of the Court below in I.A.No.187 of 2010 granting maintenance at Rs.2,000/- per month form the date of order. 2. Heard the learned counsel appearing on either side. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners states that the respondent filed O.P.No.6 of 2010 for restoration of conjugal rights and in the said OP, the petitioners had filed I.A.No.187 of 2010 for interim maintenance on the ground that neither of the petitioners are being paid any amount by the respondent since their separation and the first petitioner, who is residing with her parents, has no source of income and is required to maintain herself and her minor daughter for which maintenance at Rs.6,000/- was prayed for. The financial position of the respondent was stated to be that he was earning Rs.15,000/- as a Carpenter and has eight acres of land from which he is earning Rs.1 lakh per annum. 4. The respondent denied both the said allegations regarding his earnings but stated that he himself is ready to take the petitioners and live together, as he has to look after his aged parents. 5. The Court below after considering the rival contentions has granted maintenance at Rs.2,000/- per month from the date of order. 6. I have considered the contentions on either side. To the offer made by the learned counsel for the respondent that the respondent is willing to take the petitioners back and live together, the learned counsel for the petitioners would not immediately respond to the same in view of the fact that OP is pending before the trial Court and it would be appropriate for the trial Court to look into the said offer and pass appropriate orders. Learned counsel for the petitioner also states that the OP itself is now ripe for disposal but since the date of separation no amount has been paid by the respondent and as such, the enhancement of interim maintenance is justified. 7. In my view, the respondent as the husband of the first petitioner and father of the second petitioner is bound to maintain them within his own earnings. The respondent can be presumed to be earning Rs.10,000/- per month at least as a skilled Carpenter without taking into consideration the agricultural income and in that view of the matter as an interim arrangement, pending OP, I am of view that the respondent should be directed to pay interim maintenance at Rs.3,000/- per month from the date of petition i.e. I.A.No.187 of 2010 and the arrears of maintenance, as aforesaid, shall be paid by the respondent on or before September 15, 2011 and thereafter, every month’s maintenance commencing from October 2011 shall be paid in advance on or before 5th of each month successively. The trial Court shall take up the trial and decide O.P.No.6 of 2010 expeditiously and the trial Court shall also explore the possibility of settlement of the matter in terms of the offer of the learned counsel for the respondent, as referred to above. The civil revision petition is accordingly disposed of as indicated above. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J August 5, 2011 DSK