Tanusree Pan v. The State Of West Bengal And ANR

21.05.2026 Sl. No.13.

D/L.

Mithun.

Ct.No.29.

CRR/321/2026 Tanusree Pan Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Anr.

Mr. Saikat Debnath, Ms. Monalisa Maity, Mr. Saikat Kundu ...for the petitioner Mr. Shibaji Kumar Das, Ms. Deblina De ...for the opposite party.

Petitioner herein is aggrieved with the order dated 18.11.2025 passed by learned Additional District Judge, Bolpur in Criminal Revision No.35 of 2024.

By the impugned order, learned Court below has awarded monthly maintenance of Rs.7,500/- to the petitioner/wife and Rs.7,500/- for her son. The opposite party herein additionally was directed to pay Rs.3,000/- to the petitioner till the arrear amount of maintenance gets liquidated.

Earlier, petitioner herein filed an application under Section 125 Cr.P.C. along with a prayer for interim maintenance, which the Trial Magistrate considered and awarded maintenance of Rs.7,500/- per month for the son and Rs.5,000/- per month for the petitioner/wife. It further appears from order impugned that before the Court below, learned lawyer for the revisionist submitted that he is not aggrieved with the monthly maintenance awarded to the child amounting to Rs.7,500/- but he is aggrieved with the amount of maintenance awarded to the petitioner/wife.

Accordingly, the Court below enhanced the monthly maintenance of the petitioner from Rs.5,000/- to Rs.7,500/-. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the husband/opposite party submits that the affidavit of assets and liabilities clearly depicts that the monthly income of the husband for the month of June, 2022 was Rs.45,775/-. Accordingly, he had awarded 1/ 3rd of his income towards monthly maintenance of the child and the petitioner and, therefore, the order impugned does not call for interference.

Having considered the submissions made on behalf of the petitioner and the opposite party, I find that the maintenance amount awarded to the petitioner is interim in nature and prima facie I do not find any element which can insist this Court to interfere with the order impugned.

Therefore, CRR 321 of 2026 is hereby disposed of with a direction upon the Court below to make every endeavour for expeditious disposal of the maintenance case being Misc Case No.84 of 2022, presently pending before learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bolpur and to make his best effort to conclude the entire proceeding preferably within a period of six months from the next date of hearing, without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties without being influenced by any observation made herein.

In case of non-payment of the maintenance amount as awarded by the Court below, the petitioner will be at liberty to

initiate execution proceeding in accordance with law before the appropriate forum.

Parties to act on a server copy of this order duly collected from the official website of the Hon'ble High Court, Calcutta. ( Dr. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, J. )