IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE 8th DAY OF JULY, TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2065 of 2001 Between: Vadadi Sesha Ratnakumari … Petitioner And Vaddadi Raja Kumar and another … Respondents This Court made the following: HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2065 of 2001 ORDER: - Petitioner, who is the mother of the minor son, filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for brevity, “Cr.P.C.”) to quash the proceedings in M.C.No.44 of 2001 filed by the 1st respondent – minor son, seeking maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the above M.C. is filed by the minor son represented by his father, who is a doctor and he is having sufficient earning. Only in the event of father not having sufficient means for maintenance, then only the 1st respondent can seek maintenance from the petitioner-mother. Further, the petitioner is already maintaining her daughter and bringing up the female child and, therefore, the 1st respondent cannot claim maintenance from the petitioner, as his father is having sufficient means to maintain him. The submissions made by the petitioner are defences available to her in the maintenance case and, therefore, they can be gone into during the course of trial and while awarding maintenance. In view of the same, this Court does not see any ground to quash the proceedings. The Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. _______________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J 8th July 2010 lmv