In this criminal revision regarding a domestic violence maintenance case, the court reduced maintenance amounts and formally made its earlier interim order reducing said amounts absolute, dismissing further challenges.
Interim order reducing maintenance to Rs.1,500 for R.2 and Rs.1,000 each for R.3 and R.4 made absolute.
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THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.713 OF 2012
DATED 30th OCTOBER, 2012.
BETWEEN :
P.Satyanarayana
..Petitioner
and
The State of A.P. & others
..Respondents
THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.713 OF 2012
ORDER:
This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) is filed by the petitioner-respondent being aggrieved over the order dated 12.04.2012 passed in Crl.M.P.No.31 of 2012 in Criminal Appeal No.18 of 2012 whereby the learned I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam. Initially, R.2 to R.4 herein preferred D.V.C.No.37 of 2010 before the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, seeking reliefs under Sections 12, 18 and 22 of The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, wherein the learned Magistrate while prohibiting the petitioner herein & others from entering into the house of R.2 to R.4 herein and resorting any sort of violence against them, ordered petitioner herein to pay a sum of Rs.3000/- per month to R.2 and Rs.1500/- per moth each to R.3 and R.4 towards maintenance. Challenging the same, petitioner herein preferred Crl.A.No.18 of 2012 wherein he filed the impugned application seeking stay of all further proceedings wherein the learned Sessions Judge passed the impugned order.
This Court by order dated 18.09.2012 passed in
Crl.R.C.M.P.No.2167 of 2012 reduced the maintenance amount awarded by lower Court to Rs.1,500/- per month to R.2 herein and Rs.1,000/- per month each to R.3 and R.4.
Hence, considering the facts and circumstances of the case as elaborately discussed in order of this Court dated 18.09.2012, present Criminal Revision Case is disposed of making the interim order of this Court dated 18.09.2012 as absolute.
Miscellaneous petitions filed in this revision, if any, shall stand closed.
________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO
Dated 30th October, 2012 sur
2 issues framed by the court
Whether the interim order reducing maintenance awards should be confirmed as an absolute order.
The prayer for stay of proceedings in Criminal Appeal No.18 of 2012.
2 provisions across 2 enactments
P. Satyanarayana
The State of A.P.
Raja Elango
As recorded by the court registry
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