IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA C.R. No.2151 of 2007 MANOJ KUMAR VERMA @ MANOJ VERMA Versus RANJU DEVI & ANR ----------- 2 8.7.2008 Heard counsel for the petitioner. In the opinion of this Court, the amount of maintenance pendente lite under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriages Act under the impugned order to the tune of Rs. 2000/- for the wife and Rs. 1000/- for the minor child of the petitioner, cannot be held to be either excessive or illegal. The submission of the counsel for the petitioner that there was no specific finding as with regard to the income of the petitioner from his own resources has to be noted only for its being rejected. The Court below has gone into this aspect at length in the impugned order for recording a finding that the petitioner was member of a joint family wherein no partition has taken placed and therefore, from the joint family properties and income from a jewellery shop, he had sizable income from which he could easily paid the income of maintenance to his wife and minor child. That apart, it is the petitioner who has brought the divorce suit and therefore he cannot disown to pay maintenance to his wife and child during the pendency of the matrimonial case. There being thus no error in the impugned order, this 2 Civil Revision application is hereby dismissed with a direction to the petitioner to pay both the arrears and current amount of monthly maintenance along with the cost of litigation as directed in the impugned order by the Court below within one month from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Bibhash (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)