Civil Misc. No.3725-CII of 2009 and F.A.O. No.M-160 of 2007 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Misc. No.3725-CII of 2009 and F.A.O. No.M-160 of 2007 Date of decision: 16.4.2009 Gurcharan Singh ...Appellant Versus Charanjit Kaur ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D.ANAND. Present: Mr. Jagjit Singh, Advocate for the applicant-respondent. None for the non-applicant-appellant. S.D.ANAND, J. It was vide order dated 21.10.2008 that a Coordinate Bench (Vinod K. Sharma, J.) of this Court ordered that maintenance pendente-lite at the rate of Rs.1500/- per month shall be payable (by the appellant-husband to the respondent-wife) with effect from the date of filing of the petition. That order of the Coordinate Bench of this Court, whereby it disposed of the Civil Misc. Application vide which the wife had raised a claim for the award of maintenance pendente-lite on the authority of the provision of Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, was not complied with by the appellant-husband. When the aforementioned order was not complied with by the appellant-husband for quite some time, the respondent-wife Civil Misc. No.3725-CII of 2009 and F.A.O. No.M-160 of 2007 -2- **** came up with Civil Misc. for the issuance of a direction to the appellant-husband to comply with that order of the Court. Notice of Civil Misc. was served on the learned counsel for the appellant-husband, who entered appearance on 23.3.2009 and sought time to have instructions in the context of the averment qua non-compliance. Today, none has entered appearance on behalf of the appellant-husband inspite of two pass over. In the light of the of the above facts, the appeal is ordered to be dismissed in default and for non-compliance of the order aforementioned. April 16, 2009 (S.D.Anand) Pka Judge