THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.7073 OF 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the order dated 03.05.2025 in Crl.M.P.No.49 of 2025 in M.C.No.15 of 2019 on the file of the Judge, Family Court-cum-III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Nizamabad.

2. I have heard Mr. Hari Kishan Kudikala, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing the respondent No.1-State.

3. Briefly stated, the relevant facts of the case are as follows:

The petitioner is the respondent in M.C. No. 15 of 2019, which was adjudicated on 02.03.2021. In that proceeding, the Court awarded monthly maintenance of Rs.7,000/- to respondent No.2 (petitioner No.1 in the maintenance case) and Rs.5,000/- to respondent No.3 (petitioner No.2), totalling Rs.12,000/-. The maintenance was directed to be paid from the date of the petition, with the payments to be made directly to the account of respondent No.2 by the 5th of every succeeding month.

Additionally, the Court ordered that arrears of maintenance be cleared within th