JUDGMENT :

None appeared on behalf of the petitioner.

2. The present criminal revision is being filed for setting aside the order dated 24.12.2016 passed by learned Family Court, Principal Judge, Bhabua, District-Kaimur in Maintenance Case No. 118 of 2010, whereby and whereunder the learned Family Court has held the petitioner liable to pay Rs.2000/- to his wife and Rs.1000/- for his son as maintenance, on monthly basis.

3. It appears that the maintenance case before the learned Family Court was filed in 2010 itself against which the present criminal revision petition was preferred in 2017.

4. The matter was taken on Board, first time today but none appeared on behalf of the petitioner, on repeated calls.

5. The court is having of two options, either to dismiss this case in default giving a space to petitioner to seek restoration of case and again to keep this litigation alive, where opposite party is struggling for her maintenance, the 2nd option as available to this Court is to go through the records of the case and to take an appropriate view on the basis of materials available on the records and legal provisions as applicable to the given set of facts and circumstances.

6. The court,