(1) (947) WP 5118/11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Amk WRIT PETITON NO. 5118 OF 2011 Pramod Purohit .. Petitioner Vs. Smt. Jyoti Pramod Purohit & Ors. .. Respondents Mr. Rakesh Kumar a/w. Ms. Soni Kumari i/b M/s. Legal Vision for the Petitioner. Mr. B. K. Bali i/b M/s. Bali & Associates for the Respondents. CORAM : MRS. ROSHAN DALVI, J. Date : 17 th August, 2011. P.C. 1. This Writ Petition is filed by a husband and father of the Respondents challenging the order of interim maintenance granted under Section 18 and Section 20(3) of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956. The maintenance amount granted is Rs. 3,500/- to each of them. The wife is stated to be working. The Petitioner is shown her earning and working as LIC agent. Her earnings are shown to be Rs.7364/- for the year 2003-04 and Rs.18,531/- for the year 2002-03. The husband has alleged that she was running a nursery school in Bhopal. She is now staying at Ulhasnagar. The husband not shown any nursery school run by her in Ulhasnagar as claimed by him. (2) (947) WP 5118/11 2. As against her earning the husband has shown his income tax return showing Rs.83,500/- earns in 2003-04, Rs.70,000/- in 2002-03 and Rs.1,23,036/- in 1999-2000. He claimed to be earning much less thereafter. That is because he suffers from acute migraine and due to migraine he is unable to do take up a permanent job. He has produced doctor’s prescription showing that he had complaints of headache in June, 2003. The learned Judge has correctly not accepted his unacceptable case. 3. His daughters are still studying. The 1st daughter is undertaking research course after M.Sc. and the 2nd daughter is studying in F.Y.B.Sc. I.T. They claimed for maintenance under Section 20(3) of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 which is the exception to the rule that a child who attains majority need not be maintained. It is for the purpose of their education when they are not capable of maintaining themselves that the father has to pay their maintenance. 4. The maintenance amount is reasonable. Writ Petition is misconceived and, therefore, dismissed. (ROSHAN DALVI, J.)