Short Note : 1. This is wife's revision against the refusal of the grant of maintenance allowance under section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (old) by the two Courts below. 2. Held: The applicant in the cross-examination has stated that she was beaten by her mother-in-law two or three times. It appears that after the last beating the non-applicant himself left the applicant at her parent's house. It has come in the evidence of Govindram (PW 2) who is the Patel of village Gandharvapuri that a Panchayat was called in the village in which the father of the applicant had claimed the child of the applicant from the non-applicant as she was living at Sihore, with her father. Thus it was with the intervention of the Panchayat that the child could be returned back to the applicant. I do not know, what more is required to prove cruelty. 3. The defence of the non-applicant was that the applicant was a woman of bad character. The non-applicant went to the extent of making an allegation that he was not the father of the child who was delivered by the applicant. It is, therefore, apparent that from the very begining the non-applicant suspected the character of the applicant. This suspicion appears to be baseless for the simple reason that the non-applicant left the applicant at her parent's house keeping the child with him. In case the child was not begotten from the non-applicant. he would have been the last person to keep the child with. It may be pointed out that a baseless allegation of unchestity against the wife is in itself an act of cruelty. Revision allowed.