Domestic Violence
Mar 20, 2023
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Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE N.K. Gupta Mamta Bai & Anr. Vs. Manoj Kumar Rai & Anr. On 8 January 2014 Law Point: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 β Section 12 β Grant of maintenance and return of Stridhan of applicant No. 1 β Considering circumstances in which applicant left house of respondent at intervention of police and legal steps by father to take his daughter home β It cannot be presumed that applicant left house without taking her ornaments, it was not alleged by applicant that ornaments were in custody of respondent or kept in locker β ASJ rightly accepted testimony of βGβ in this regard and rightly found Trial Court committed error in directing return of entire Stridhan to applicant No. 1 β No interference required in criminal revision β No