Who of the following may order maintenance of wives, children and parents under the Bharatiya Nagarik…

Section 144(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly section 125(1) CrPC) empowers a "Magistrate of the first class" to order a person with sufficient means to pay monthly maintenance to a wife, child or parent unable to maintain themselves. An Executive Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the second class has no such power; where a Family Court has been set up, that court exercises this jurisdiction instead.