Murti Dhar Singh And Ors. vs Vijendra Singh Jafa on 19 October, 2001
"23. An application under Section 125 of the New Code cannot be a police report as contemplated by Section 173 nor is it a complaint as defined by Section 2(b). The result produced by its conclusion is neither acquittal nor conviction, not oven a discharge. Moreover, a final order under Section 125, to be taken as such, must satisfy the conditions laid down by Section 354(6), i.e., it must state the points for determination, the decision thereon and reasons for the decision. In the present case no evidence whatever had been adduced and the stage of passing a final order had not as such been reached and consequently no such order was actually passed. The mare fact that the order of the Magistrate had the effect of consigning the petition for maintenance to the record room would not by itself be enough clothe it with the attributes of a final order.