Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 786 · Decided 26 November 2013
Indra Sarma v. V.K.V. Sarma
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 786 · [2013] 14 S.C.R. 1019
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2009/2013
- Decided
- 26 November 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 5, 7; Domestic Violence Act Section 2(f), 2(a), 3
Headnote
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 A B - ss. 2(f) and 3 - "Live-in relationship" - If would amount to a C "relationship in the nature of marriage" falling. within the definition of "domestic relationship" uls.2(f) - Failure to maintain a woman meaning of s.3 - Held: All live­ in-relationships are not relationships in the nature of marriage D - On facts, appellant, an unmarried woman, entered into a live-in-relationship with respondent knowing that he was married person, with wife and two children, hence, the generic proposition that
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