 bill no xix of  2016 the code of criminal procedure (amendment) bill, 2016 a billfurther to amend the code of criminal procedure,  1973be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1 this act may be called the code of criminal procedure ( amendment) act, 2016(2) it shall come into force at onceshort title and commencement2 in section 125 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973,—amendment of section 125 of act of 1973(i) in sub-section (1), after the words "at such monthly rate", the words "not less than one-third of the monthly income of the person from whom the maintenance is claimed", shall be inserted(ii) after sub-section (i) the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—(ia) if the party from whom the maintenance is claimed fails to appearbefore the court on three successive occasions, the magistrate on the third occasion shall pass the order ex-parte statement  of  objects  and  reasonsas of now, no amount of maintenance allowance has been prescribed under section125 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 the earlier limit of maintenane of rupees five hundered was, removed in the year 2001 as that was fixed many years earlier though that was a right move but in the absence of a reasonable minimum amount of monthly allowance,dependents are facing problem there has to be a minimum limit in this regard to remove ambiguity so that the dependents have a reasonable amount to live withit has also been seen that at time the cases for maintenance stretch too long in view of the non appearance of the person from whom maintenance has been claimed, which is inappropriate in the interest of justice to the dependentstherefore, it is proposed that the amount of maintenance should not be less than one third of the montly income of the person and if the person failed to appear before the magistrate for three consecutive times, ex-parte orders should be passed against himhence this billvijay jawaharlal darda rajya  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the code of criminal procedure, 1973————(shri vijay jawaharlal darda,  mp)gmgipmrnd—676rs(s3)—03-05-2016