*1* kps IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CONTEMPT PETITION NO.352 of 2008. IN CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.775 OF 2008. Mrs.Rimpi Manish Jain. ..Petitioner -Versus- Mr.Manish Rajkumar Jain. ..Respondent ........... Mrs.Rimpi Jain, Petitioner, present in person. Mr.Rajesh Singh, Advocate for the Respondent. .......... CORAM : K.K.TATED, J. Date : 03rd February, 2010. P.C. 1 The Petitioner/wife and the Respondent/husband, present in person. 2 As per the order dated 06th January, 2010 passed by this Court, the Respondent/contemner present in the Court. This Contempt Petition is preferred by the wife against the husband for violating the order dated 12th August, 2008 passed by this Court (Justice A.S.Oka) in Criminal Writ Petition No.775/2008. As per the said order dated 12th August, 2008, this Court directed the Respondent/husband to pay interim maintenance regularly granted by the learned Magistrate by order dated 01st February, 2008. 3 It is the case of the Petitioner/wife that inspite of the order passed by this Court dated 12th August, 2008, the Respondent failed and neglected to pay interim maintenance regularly. There *2* are arrears of more than Rs.44,000/- as on today. 4 These facts are denied by the learned counsel for the Respondent. The learned counsel for the Respondent, after taking instructions from the Respondent, makes a statement that the Respondent is ready and willing to pay as on today a sum of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand only) to the Petitioner on account of payment of arrears of maintenance charges till February, 2010. He further makes a statement that the Respondent is ready and willing to hand over a cheque of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) for the payment of maintenance amount for a month of March, 2010. He further makes a statement that the Respondent is also ready and willing to hand over in advance, within four weeks from today, the post-dated cheques for future maintenance for the months of April, 2010 to December, 2010 to be paid on 1st day of every month. The Petitioner has also no objection to dispose of the present Contempt Petition if the Respondent undertakes to pay her maintenance charges regularly. 5 It is to be noted that the Madras High Court, in the matter of A.Ramalingam Vs. V.V.Mahalinga Nadar reported in AIR 1966 Madras 21, held that:- Essentially, contempt of Court is a matter which concerns the administration of justice and the dignity and authority of judicial tribunals; to enable the court to take such action as it deems *3* expedient to adopt, a party can bring to its notice, facts constituting what may appear to amount to contempt of Court. Essentially, however, it is not a right of a party to be invoked for the redressal of his grievances. It is not also a mode by which the rights of a party, adjudicated upon by a tribunal can be enforced against another party. Only when the facts on the record, ex-facie, support a proceeding in contempt that it would be in the interests of justice to exercise contempt jurisdiction, or to commence to do so. Any detailed enquiry must be left to the Court which had passed the order and which presumably is fully acquainted with the subject matter of its own decree. When the matter relates to infringement of a decree or decreetal order embodying rights, as between parties, it is clearly inexpedient to invoke and exercise contempt jurisdiction, in essence, as a mode of executing that decree or merely because other remedies may take time or are more circumlocutory in character. 6 In view of this, I do not find it necessary to go in detail of the present Contempt Petition. As the Respondent has agreed to pay maintenance regularly, I pass the following order :- (i) The Respondent is directed to pay a sum of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) to the Petitioner on account of arrears of maintenance till the month of February, 2010. Accordingly, the Respondent has handed over to the Petitioner, today in the Court, a cheque of Rs.20,000/- dated 03rd February, 2010 bearing No.759030 drawn on *4* the South Indian Bank Limited, Deharadun, Uttaranchal. (ii) The Respondent has also handed over a cheque of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) bearing No. 759029 drawn on the South Indian Bank Limited, Deharadun, Uttaranchal towards the maintenance for the month of March, 2010 to the Petitioner. (iii) The Respondent undertakes to send the remaining cheques of maintenance charges to the Petitioner for the months of April, 2010 to December, 2010 within a period of four weeks from today, payable on 1st day of every month. (iv) Liberty is granted to the Petitioner to file appropriate proceeding in the Family Court for difference of maintenance charges, if any. (v) As the Respondent has paid the arrears of maintenance charges and has also agreed to pay future maintenance as stated above, nothing survives in this Contempt Petition and the same is dismissed. No order as to costs. (K.K.TATED, J.)