Second revision bar under criminal procedure law blocked challenge to maintenance order; no exceptional ground justified interference.

A petition styled under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Article 227 could not be used to bypass the statutory bar on a second revision after the petitioner had already exhausted the revisional remedy under Sections 397 and 401. The High Court held that inherent and supervisory powers are available only in exceptional cases to prevent grave injustice, abuse of process, or secure the ends of justice, and found no such circumstance here. The concurrent findings that the respondent lacked sufficient means and that the petitioner was not maintaining her disclosed no illegality or miscarriage of justice. The maintenance order and revisional order were therefore left undisturbed.

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Issues: Whether a petition styled under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and Article 227 of the Constitution of India was maintainable after the petitioner had already exhausted the revisional remedy under Sections 397 and 401 of the Code; and whether the concurrent findings granting maintenance under Section 125 of the Code called for interference.

Analysis: The petitioner had already pursued a criminal revision against the maintenance order, and a further challenge in substance amounted to a second revision barred by Section 397(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The scope of inherent power under Section 482 and supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 is narrow and can be exercised only in exceptional cases to prevent grave injustice, abuse of process, or to secure the ends of justice. The concurrent findings of the courts below that the respondent lacked sufficient means to maintain herself and that the petitioner was not maintaining her involved no such illegality or gross miscarriage of justice warranting interference.

Conclusion: The petition was not maintainable as a second revision in disguise, and no ground was made out for interference under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 or Article 227 of the Constitution of India.

Final Conclusion: The maintenance order and the revisional order were left undisturbed, and the petition failed at the threshold.

Ratio Decidendi: A petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 or Article 227 of the Constitution of India cannot be used to circumvent the statutory bar against a second revision under Section 397(2) of the Code, and interference is justified only in exceptional cases showing grave injustice or abuse of process.

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