HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.4370 OF 2007 DATE:19-11-2010 BETWEEN Gokhavarapu Mohan …Petitioners AND Gokavarapu Nagaprabha & others. …Respondents THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.4370 OF 2007 ORDER: This revision under Article 227 of Constitution of India read with Section 19(4) of Family Courts Act is directed against the orders of the Family Court-cum-VI Additional District and Sessions Judge, Vijayawada, dated 25.6.2007 passed in M.C.No.81 of 2004 whereby the learned Judge awarded maintenance of Rs.1000/- to the first respondent-wife and Rs.500/- each to the respondent Nos.2 and 3, who are daughter and son of the petitioner herein. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner, who is doing cooli work has not gainfully employed and therefore, awarding of the maintenance at Rs.1,000/- to the wife- first respondent herein and Rs.500/- each to the children- respondents 2 and 3 herein is excessive. He further contends that the first respondent-wife is now gainfully employed as she has been appointed as Conductor in the A.P.S.R.T.C. and therefore, she is not entitled for maintenance. Alternatively, the learned counsel contends that while admitting the revision, this Court directed the petitioner to pay Rs.1,250/- as against Rs.2,000/- to the respondents i.e. Rs.750/- to the first respondent-wife and Rs.250/- each to the respondents 2 and 3 and therefore, the order passed by the Court below may be modified in terms of the said interim order passed by this Court. The award of maintenance is passed under Section 125 Cr.P.C. Since it is represented that the first respondent is now gainfully employed, it is always open to the petitioner to move the Family Court for modification of the maintenance under Section 127 Cr.P.C. The award of maintenance of Rs.2,000/- granted by the Court below to the wife and the minor children, in the present day circumstances, is meager and the same is not sufficient to have square meal a day for all the three. In that view of the matter, this Court does not find any infirmity in awarding the maintenance to the respondents at Rs.2,000/- per month. The Civil Revision Petition is accordingly dismissed granting liberty to the petitioner to approach the Family Court for alteration of maintenance, if any. No order as to costs. _________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. NOVEMBER 19, 2010 Tsr.