My daughter-in-law (DIL) has filed a complaint against my son + 5 family members 6 years ago and won an ex parte award for interim maintenance. The trial is yet to start.
My son paid monthly maintenance for 3 years and has stopped paying thereafter. He has become a foreign national and is staying abroad since the last 15 years. The complainant has filed all false charges and is only interested in squeezing out monthly maintenance and is not proceeding with the case. She has obtained an arrest warrant for non payment against him.
We have applied to the trial court for discharge of the other 5 accused as the complainant has taken no steps to further the case. The judge has clubbed this case with the execution petition. He seems less inclined to pass any order as long as the executioon petition is pending.
Can we force his hand by citing any court order and compel him to proceed and move the case against the other 5 accused forward or discharge them even though the arrest warrant against one of the accused is pending?