IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.5302 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision: 1st September, 2011 Gurpreet Singh … Petitioner Versus Shaminderpal Kaur and another … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Achin Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) Present revision petition has been filed by the petitioner against award of maintenance pendente lite of Rs.3,000/- to the respondent No.1-wife and Rs.1,500/- to respondent No.2-minor daughter. Counsel for the petitioner has stated that the Court of Additional District Judge, Faridkot trying the petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1954 has gravely erred by awarding maintenance of Rs.3,000/- in favour of the wife. It is submitted that once the Court had held that the petitioner was having no land on his name, the sole criteria for the Court to award maintenance was that the petitioner is an able bodied man. In the Indian socio-economic scenario, marriage is not only performed with a bridegroom. It is an alliance between two families. At the time of marriage, status of the family is given due consideration. It has been noticed in the impugned order that father of the petitioner is Civil Revision No.5302 of 2011 (O&M) having a land-holding, therefore, the maintenance which is to be awarded ought to commensurate with the status of the family. Thus, taking totality of circumstances into consideration that the petitioner is an able bodied man and his father is having a land-holding, it cannot be said that the maintenance awarded is on a higher side. Hence, no interference is warranted in the present petition and the same is hereby dismissed. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE September 1, 2011 rps 2