APHC010605262023 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 9383/2023 Between: Jaddu Venkateswara Rao and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Ap and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. PEDDADA VIMALA DESAI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) 2. VIJAYA KUMAR NAIDANA The Court made the following Order: The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are only seeking a direction to the concerned Magistrate to dispose off the M.C.No.25 of 2017 expeditiously on merits. 2. It is submitted that the petitioners therein/parents have filed M.C. No. 25 of 2017 against the respondents therein/sons, who are employed, seeking maintenance. The said petition has been pending since 2017. It is submitted that though maintenance applications are to be disposed off within a period of 2 six (06) months, the case is being adjourned from time to time without any progress. It is also submitted that pleadings have also been completed. 3. Considering the same, there shall be a direction to the Special Mobile-Cum-Judicial First Class Magistrate, Machilipatnam, to dispose off the M.C.No.25 of 2017, preferably within a period of eight (08) weeks from the date of receipt of this order. 4. With these observations, this Criminal Petition is disposed off. As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. ___________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N 01.04.2025 PNS