HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.3447 of 2008 ORDER: This criminal petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to quash the order, dated 16.07.2001, passed in M.C.No.13 of 1999 by the learned Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Special Mobile Court, Ongole. Facts of the case, in brief, are that respondents 1 and 2 herein, who are wife and daughter of the petitioner herein filed M.C.No.13 of 1999 against the petitioner seeking maintenance. The Court below, after hearing both sides and considering the oral and documentary evidence, by an order dated 16.07.2001, allowed the M.C. in part, directing the petitioner to pay Rs.500/- p.m. to respondents 1 and 2 each towards maintenance from 28.06.1999. Questioning the said order, the petitioner filed this criminal petition. On 20.06.2008, this Court ordered notice before admission. Thereafter, this matter did not see the light of the day and for the first time, it is listed before this Court today. This shows that the petitioner has not evinced any interest in prosecuting the matter. In the circumstances, this Court has left with no option except to confirm the impugned order. The Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. __________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA,J 27.04.2010 kdl