IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH: HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.1255 OF 2010 BETWEEN: Thumu Srinu S/o. Koteswara Rao …. Petitioner AND State of A.P., rep. by the Public Prosecutor and another …. Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.1255 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioner is husband of the second respondent. He is questioning order dated 02-06-2010 in M.C. No.247 of 2009 by which the lower Court granted interim maintenance of Rs.1,500/- per month to the wife from the petitioner under Section 125 Cr.P.C. 2. It is contended by the petitioner’s counsel that mockery of marriage was performed between the parties when both of them were minors and there was no consummation of marriage and that the petitioner filed another petition in the lower Court for annulment of marriage and that the second respondent filed another case against him for the offence punishable under Section 498-A IPC. 3. Admittedly, the parties are living separately. The second respondent has no means to maintain herself. According to the second respondent, the petitioner is getting salary of Rs.7,000/- per month. According to the petitioner, he is getting salary of Rs.2,000/- per month. The second respondent further contends that the petitioner has got Acs.2.00 gts. of land and he is getting agricultural income of Rs.60,000/- per year. 4. Consummation of marriage is no condition precedent for granting of maintenance. Until the marriage is annulled, the petitioner has got obligation to maintain the second respondent who is his wife. As against prayer for interim maintenance of Rs.4,000/-, the lower Court granted only Rs.1,500/- per month. I do not find any valid or legal reasons to interfere with order passed by the lower Court. The impugned order does not suffer from any infirmity. 5. Hence, the revision petition is dismissed. __________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J July 12, 2010 KTL