the object underlying Section 125 of the Code is quite specific and crystal clear to provide cheap, speedy and summary remedy to the destitute dependants down in the street all of a sudden so as to immediately render them some succour to withstand and survive the catastrophe and predicament in which they are placed!! If this much needed judicial consciousness and activism is not injected in the working of learned Magistrates and developed to take care of the most needy section of the society, the maintenance proceedings under Section 125 would lose all its benevolent significance and as a result what ought we know some frustrated soul may even brand such proceedings as ‘catching at straw’!! Quite rightly, perhaps!! Accordingly, let the Courts take care before so stigmatized!! It is only because these days the Courts are flooded with cases, marooned and stranded as they are and that take sometimes, even years to decide such applications, it has become necessary to pass some interim orders at the earliest possible, and accordingly when the Courts are passing some such interim orders, it is also and always duty bound to see that the interim amount awarded is not such petty and illusory one which just wets the lips but does not at all enter the mouth to quench the thirst, ridiculing the claimant and ultimately the administration of justice! While deciding the maintenance applications, be it at the stage of interim order or at the final stage, it is the paramount duty of every Court to see to it that the immediate justice is done right-now in time and in the right direction by taking appropriate care of the destitute-dependants placing itself in place of the hard pressed applicants and appreciating their day-to-day difficulties. Unlike other Criminal cases, the cases under Section 125 pertaining to the maintenance are firstly, partly to redress the civil right and accordingly quasi-judicial in nature and secondly, the Court is not called upon to punish the accused for the alleged offence committed which can take some time for which the Court may not be in undue hurry, but the maintenance is essentially a question of immediate need for survival and therefore, this sort of cases are required to be attended first and decided on “A priority basis”! To appreciate the gravity and urgency of the situation in maintenance proceeding, to give an illustration, the maintenance application is just like a call summoning fire-brigade to extinguish the fire, where the brigade people cannot be allowed to be lethargic and take their own time to run to rescue the victims to avoid the situation whereby by the time they reach the urgency is lost and fire doing the maximum damage which could have been avoided by prompt action!! To give another illustration, drowning person needs immediate rescue operation, likewise that is the urgency and importance of attending the maintenance problem. Accordingly, as to what factors are required to be taken into consideration at the initial stage, while entertaining the maintenance application under Section 125 of the Code, this Court on earlier occasion has already given some guidance in a decision rendered in the case of Miss Shilpa Bansilal Shah v. Bansilal K. Shah reported in 1993 (1) GLH 753 : 1993 (1) GLR 223, the relevant paragraphs whereof is reproduced hereunder (at Page No. 234 of GLR):