Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 473 · Decided 8 April 2019
Ajay Kumar v. Lata @ Sharuti & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 473 · [2019] 6 S.C.R. 283
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 617/2019
- Decided
- 8 April 2019
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125; Constitution Article 136; Domestic Violence Act Section 2(f), 2(q), 2(s), 12
Headnote
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 - ss.2(f),2(q), 2(s), 12 - Award of maintenance - Complainant-first respondent case that she resided with her husband at a house which constituted ancestral Hindu Joint family property - The appellant and her husband were death of her husband, she was not permitted to reside in her matrimonial home - Complainant sought maintenance for herself and her minor child under the Act - Trial Court directed interim award of maintenance against the appellant who was carrying on the business together with the
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