Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 1026 · Decided 15 December 2006
S.R. Batra and ANR. v. SMT. Tar Una Batra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 1026 · [2006] SUPP. 10 S.C.R. 1206
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5837/2006
- Decided
- 15 December 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 498A, 506, 34; Constitution Article 227, 226; Domestic Violence Act
Headnote
Protection to Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005: ss. 2(s), 17(1), 19(/)(/)-"Shared household"-Meaning of-Divorce c petition and criminal proceedings pending between husband and wife-Wife claiming right to reside in the house owned by her mother-in-law-Held, the right which may be and not to husband and as such wife ca1111ot claim any right to live therein - Interpretation of D Statutes-Presumption against absurdity. Respondent herein, after her marriage, lived for sometime with her husband in the premises in question, the house owned by her mother-in-law,
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