IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.R. No. 2815 of 2011 ` Date of decision: 29.4.2011 Ramji Lal … Petitioner versus Asha Rani @ Gurmeet Kaur … Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ARVIND KUMAR Present: Mr. I.S.Pabla, Advocate, for the petitioner ... ARVIND KUMAR, J: The present petitioner is the husband. He filed petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act for dissolution of marriage. Respondent-wife filed an application under Section 24 of the Act ibid. The Court below awarded Rs.4000/- per month as maintenance pendente-lite and Rs.11,000/- as litigation expenses to her. Hence, the present revision by the husband. Counsel for the petitioner after having referred to Annexures P-2 and P-3 contends that the petitioner is merely a student of Engineering in Haryana Polytechnic Institute, Lohar Majra(Kurukshetra) and has no income and as such, respondent-wife is not entitled to any maintenance pendente lite. Heard. The present petitioner-husband has dragged the respondent-wife in divorce petition itself after only one year of the marriage. He being the husband is under a legal obligation to maintain the wife and cannot get away on the plea that he is merely a student. He could not prove to indicate that respondent-wife is also earning from the stitching and sewing of clothes as claimed by him. Respondent-wife has no source of income. In this back-drop of the facts, the maintenance pendente lite of C.R. No. 2815 of 2011 -2- Rs.4000/- so fixed by the Court below cannot be said to be on excessive side as now-a-days the costs of living has gone very high. Consequently, the revision petition is dismissed in limine. April 29, 2011 ( ARVIND KUMAR ) JS JUDGE