19.9. Section 31 of the Act provides for punishment only if a person commits breach of protection order passed under Section 18 or an order ...

   The contention of the petitioner that respondent No. 3 is debarred from lodging FIR as she has already filed an application under Section...

  The provisions of the Act contemplate filing of an application under Section 12 to initiate the proceedings before the concerned Magistrat...

Herein, the petitioners do not claim themselves to be “aggrieved person” but would assert their right to present an application under Sectio...

   Thus, averments in application suggest, that Applicant is well  educated person; she is financially sound; her parents are in business.  ...

A short question raised in this petition is whether in an application filed under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from the Domestic ...

In the present case, the petitioner and the opposite party are related with each other i.e. the relationship of son and mother. They h...

Moreover, our law recognises the right of a divorced wife to get maintenance till her remarriage. This Act of 2005 provides additional r...

Respondent No. 2, who did not change her stand in the second motion and obtained a sham decree of divorce as alleged by her asked the crim...

The submission which has been urged on behalf of the appellant is that there was no basis under the provisions of the Act to fasten ...

Against the above backdrop, the contentions raised by the petitioner that she has a right to continue to live in a portion of the above-m...

The considerations in the prosecution under Section 498­A of the Indian Penal Code are different from the considerations while dealing ...

I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and I am of the opinion that mere dismissal of the application under Section 12 of the ...

So far as issue of limitation provided under section 468 CrPC is concerned, it has no application to section 12 of the Act of 2005 as it i...