THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM CIVIL REVISION PETITION NO.3048 OF 2011 ORDER: This revision under Article 227 of the Constitution of India is directed against the order dated 13.06.2011 of the learned Judge, Additional Family Court, Visakhapatnam, rejecting I.A.No.80 of 2011 filed by the revision petitioner under Order XIV Rule 2 (2) read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, filed for a determination as to the maintainability of O.P.No.1157 of 2009 under Sections 18 and 20 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 {“the Act” for brevity}. The respondent filed the O.P. under Sections 18 and 20 of the Act seeking maintenance for herself and the minor child claiming that her marriage was performed with the petitioner as per the Hindu Customs and Rites and also registered with the Marriage Registrar on 02.06.2004. When the trial in the O.P. had commenced and the matter was coming for the cross examination of the respondent-revision petitioner, the present application in I.A.No.80 of 2011 was filed. Before the Family Court, the revision petitioner had argued his case in- person. The Court, in the order impugned, has clearly recorded that the revision petitioner is unable to answer any legal point and has been filing successive petitions; he is asserting that he would engage an advocate but has not done so; and was paying interim maintenance as awarded by the High Court. The Court below declined to decide the issue as to the validity of the marriage as a preliminary issue on the basis of the contention of the revision petitioner that since he is a Christian and the marriage under the provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 is not sustainable, grant of maintenance under the provisions of the Act cannot also be granted and the O.P. itself is not maintainable. In the order impugned, the Court below declined to decide the issue as to the validity of the marriage as a preliminary issue since the respondent-original petitioner had filed the petition claiming the marriage to have been conducted under the Hindu Rites and Customs, under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and the fact that the marriage was registered under the said Act before the Marriage Registrar. The Court below held that in these circumstances, a detailed enquiry into the validity of the marriage is more appropriately determined as part of the main case itself. This Court discerns no error in application of law or exercise of jurisdiction, in declining to decide the validity of the marriage as a preliminary issue, warranting revisional interference under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. Accordingly, this Civil Revision Petition is dismissed at the stage of admission. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ (GODA RAGHURAM, J) 11th August 2011 RRB