IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA C.R. No.1362 of 2008 KRISHNA PRASAD KESHARI Versus RUKMINA DEVI ----------- 3 3/9/2008 Heard counsel for the petitioner. In the opinion of this Court the impugned order granting ad-interim maintenance by way of maintenance pendent-elite under section 24 of the Hindu Marriages Act of a sum of Rs. 3200/- per month for the wife and three children, cannot be said to be either excessive or illegal. The plea of the petitioner that he has no such means, has to be only noticed for its being rejected, because he had only asserted in his earlier application seeking restitution of conjugal rights that he is carrying his business in Delhi and wanted to take his wife on that place. It is well known that the cost of living at Delhi will not be less than Rs. 3200/- for the total family of four persons, in respect of which the court below has allowed maintenance pendent- elite strictly in terms of section 24 of the Hindu Marriages Act. There being no error in the impugned order, this civil revision application is dismissed with a direction to the petitioner to pay both the arrears and current amount of maintenance within a period of one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J. ) Abhay Kumar