Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 563 · Decided 12 May 2022
Prabha Tyagi v. Kamlesh Devi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 563 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 970
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 511/2022
- Decided
- 12 May 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Domestic Violence Act Section 12, 17, 19, 22, 2(a), 2(f), 2(s)
Headnote
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005: ss.12, 17, 19, 22 - Domestic violence - Allegations of, by the aggrieved person-wife - Death of the husband within one month of the marriage in a car accident - Birth of daughter within a year of marriage - After tortured and harassed by her mother-in-law and her matrimonial family, and was forced to leave her matrimonial home - She started working to support herself and her child - Issuance of notice to the respondents to return her stridhana but there was no response - Aggrieved person
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