IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.3293 OF 2009 Between: Kakani Nageswararao .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Kakani Bharathi ....RESPONDENT The Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.3293 OF 2009 ORDER: This Civil Revision Petition, under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, is directed against the order, dated 12.05.2009, in I.A.No.201 of 2009 in O.P.No.894 of 2008, on the file of the Additional Family Court, Visakhapatnam, whereunder and whereby, the petition, filed under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, to grant interim maintenance at the rate of Rs.15,000/- per month, was partly allowed granting interim maintenance at the rate of Rs.5,000/- per month from the date of filing of the petition. 2. Heard both sides. 3. Petitioner herein is the husband of the respondent herein. The main O.P. was filed by the respondent herein for grant of maintenance at the rate of Rs.15,000/- per month. In the said O.P., the present application was filed for grant of interim maintenance. By virtue of the impugned order, an amount of Rs.5,000/- per month was ordered to be paid by the petitioner to the respondent. 4. In the trial Court, it is the case of the respondent herein that the petitioner is an employee working in HPCL; that he is getting Rs.35,000/- per month as salary and Rs.25,000/- from out of his shares. The same was resisted by the learned counsel for the petitioner and contended that the respondent deserted the petitioner and therefore, she is not entitled for any maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and that divorce has been granted by the competent Court. Even assuming for a moment that the respondent herein is the divorced wife of the petitioner herein, still she is entitled for maintenance, so long as she is not married again. It is not the case of the petitioner herein that after dissolution of marriage, respondent herein married again. In view of the fact that the petitioner is an employee and drawing income of more than Rs.35,000/- per month, granting interim maintenance at Rs.5,000/- per month to the respondent is not shown to be on higher side or unreasonable. Even that amount of Rs.5,000/- is hardly sufficient for the maintenance of the wife, in view of the escalation of prices of all essential commodities in the recent past. Therefore, the impugned order needs no interference by this Court. 5. Accordingly, the Civil Revision Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________ K.C. BHANU, J February 17, 2011 MD THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.3293 OF 2009 February 17, 2011