Respondent has filed the complaint under the Act. Admittedly, petitioners are not residing in the matrimonial home of the respondent.  {Para...

The High Court has rightly found in effect that the ingredients of domestic violence are wholly absent in this case.  The Petitioner and the...

  The law laid down by the Apex Court in Prabha Tyagi (supra) will not assist the case of Respondent No 1 as the Petitioner is the married s...

  (ii) Whether it is mandatory for the aggrieved person to reside with those persons against whom the allegations have been levied at the po...

(iii) Whether there should be a subsisting domestic relationship between the aggrieved person and the person against whom the relief is clai...

In Indian law, the concepts of "matrimonial home" and "shared household" are closely related but have distinct meanings ...

  Admittedly, the Revision Petitioner No.1 is the husband of the respondent. However, the Revision Petitioner is living with first wife. Tak...

This Court is cognizant that the Senior Citizens Act 2007 was promulgated with a view to provide a speedy and inexpensive remedy to senior c...

  The right to reside in shared household as granted by Section 17 of Domestic violence Act itself  contemplates an exception in express wor...

   In case, the shared household of a woman is a tenanted/allotted/licensed accommodation where tenancy/ allotment/license is in the name of...

  Question No.7 118.  Learned counsel for the appellant challenging the direction issued by the High Court that the husband of respondent be...

 Coming back to the facts of the present case, I find that in view of the specific assertion made in the plaint that the plaintiff is the ...

  It is evident from the complaint that the petitioner was not sharing the household with the respondent No. 1 and 2 for a long time and s...

The High Court has rightly found in effect that the ingredients of domestic violence are wholly absent in this case.  The petitioner...

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...

Section 2(f) of the Domestic Violence Act reads as under:- "(f) „domestic relationship‟ means a relationship between two persons...

There can be no quarrel with the aforesaid exposition of law. But, then the petitioner has failed to prove on record that the house belo...

Of course, an order under Section 19(1)(f) is permissible only on satisfaction that domestic violence had taken place. In this case, e...

    If, as a matter of fact, a girl is brought to the house by the bridegroom on his own without the junction of his parents, of cou...

New Delhi: Duration of relation, shared household and pooling of resources are some of the guidelines the Supreme Court has framed for br...