HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2746 of 2005 DT.19.07.2010 Polipalli Appala Swamy …Petitioner V. The State of A.P., rep. By Public Prosecutor and another … Respondents The Court made the following: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2746 of 2005 ORDER:- By filing this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, “Cr.P.C.”) the petitioner seeks quashment of the orders passed by V Additional Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam in Crl.R.P.No.11 of 2003, dated 31.03.2005, whereby the revision filed by the petitioner/husband has been dismissed confirming the maintenance of Rs.500/- awarded to the respondent in M.C.No.29 of 1997, by IX Metropolitan Magistrate, Bheemunipatnam, dated 28.01.2003. Both the Courts concurrently held that the respondent is the wife of the petitioner and, therefore, this Court in exercise of the jurisdiction under Article 482 of Cr.P.C., cannot reappraise the evidence and cannot declare that she is not the legally wedded wife of the petitioner, as contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner. In the absence of any stay granted by this Court and all these years the petitioner has been paying the maintenance amounts to the respondent, no ground is made out to quash the orders passed in Crl.R.P.No.11 of 2003, dated 31.03.2005 dismissing the revision filed by the petitioner confirming maintenance awarded by the Magistrate in M.C.No.29 of 1997, dated 28.01.2003. The Criminal Petition is dismissed. _______________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J 9th July 2010 lmv