THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.708 of 2004 JUDGMENT: Respondents 1 and 2, who are the wife and child of the petitioner herein, respectively, filed M.C.No.68 of 2003 on the file of the Family Court, Visakhapatnam, against the petitioner herein claiming maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. In the said M.C., as the petitioner did not evince any interest, he was set ex parte and an ex parte order was passed on 05.05.2003, directing him to pay maintenance to the respondents. Coming to know of the said fact, the petitioner herein filed M.P.No.404 of 2003 in the said M.C., before the Court below seeking to set aside the ex parte order, dated 05.05.2003. However, the same was dismissed by the Court below by an order, dated 03.12.2003. Subsequently, a petition in M.P.No.685 of 2003 was filed by the petitioner under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking to grant stay of execution of order passed in M.P.No.322 of 2003 in the said M.C., but the same was dismissed by the Court below and the same is under challenge in this Revision. This Court admitted this Criminal Revision Case on 14.12.2004 and ordered to issue notices to respondents 1 and 2, but the notices sent to respondents 1 and 2 were not yet returned served. That apart, as of now six years lapsed, in which case, this Court is of the view that the said ex pate decree passed against the petitioner must have been executed. For the foregoing reasons, the Criminal Revision Case is dismissed. ___________________________________ JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA 17th February 2011 DR