HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA CRL.P.No.860 of 2008 ORDER: Petitioner seeks quashing of the order passed in Crl.M.P.No.5009 of 2007 in M.C.No.9 of 2005 dated 03.01.2008 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Bantumilli. 2nd respondent, being the mother of the petitioner herein, filed the M.C.No.9 of 2005 seeking maintenance of Rs.2,000/- per month from the petitioner herein and her second son. Subsequently, the matter was settled before Lok Adalat on 16.07.2005 and accordingly an award was passed directing the petitioner and his brother to pay monthly maintenance of Rs.800/- each to the 2nd respondent herein. Since the petitioner herein has failed to pay the maintenance, the 2nd respondent herein filed Crl.M.P.No.438 of 2007 seeking a direction to the petitioner to pay arrears of maintenance from 1.9.2006 to 1.2.2007. During the pendency of the said petition, the petitioner herein filed Crl.M.P.No.5009 of 2007 in Crl.M.P.No.438 of 2007 seeking cancellation of maintenance granted under award dated 16.07.2005 in M.C.No.9 of 2005 on the ground that the 2nd respondent herein is having sufficient means to maintain herself. The trial Court, after an analysis of the entire evidence available on record, dismissed the said petition by an order dated 03.01.2008. Aggrieved by the same, the present criminal petition is filed by the petitioner. The learned Magistrate has given sufficient and cogent reasons in dismissing the petition holding that the matter was settled before Lok Adalat on 16.07.2005 under Section 20 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 and that the decision in Lok Adalat is equivalent to the judgment in Civil Court and there is no appeal to the said order. Therefore, I see no reason or justification to interfere with the order passed by the trial Court. I find no merit in this petition. The Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. _______________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J) 22.04.2010 Gsn.