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Shiven (XYZ)     15 November 2015

Is dv maintainable after sepration of 2.5 years

My wife filed a DV case after separation of 2.5 years. She also put this point in application that she is living in her parents house from 2013 and no domestic relation. (she already filed 498A,125 case).

Is DV is maintainable after without any domestic relation from so much time.. ?

she also included my mother, father,  my sister,BIL and Maternal Uncle in DV and shows that they were living in my parents home.

but every one is living in separate home and My sister and BIL are residing in different city even I am also working and living is different city.

how to fight this case. if it is not maintainable then how to submit this application (I mean as a preliminary oblection or reply in WS) ?



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kishan   15 November 2015

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     16 November 2015

Dv is not maintenable if the wife is living separately for more than 2 yrs(but U have to prove it).Many HC's have dismissed such cases.

498A and 125 shall continue until disposal even if she is living separately.U have to fight them on merits only.

 

TR NIMADE (AM)     16 November 2015

Dear Sainath,                                                     16/11/15

As per my information it is one year.judgment was delivered by justice ROSHAN DLAVI OF BOMBAY HIGH COURT AS UNDER

RIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 160 OF 2011
Sejal Dharmesh Ved ..  Applicant
Vs.
The State of Maharashtra & Ors. ..  Respondents
Mr. Amit S. Dhutia i/b Niranjan Mundargi for the Applicant.
Mrs. A. A. Mane, APP for Respondent No.1­State.
CORAM :  MRS. ROSHAN DALVI, J.
DATE :  7th MARCH, 2013.
 
However i desire more and more judgment.please send pm to me the judgment of 2 years. I am interested and desired to quote it in one of the case.
Thanks
trnimade@gmail.com

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     16 November 2015

Mr.Nimade Better post UR query in a new thread as the original querist gets deprived of his solution.

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     16 November 2015

Dear Shiven,

The official separation/desertion periiod is 1 yr and not 2 yrs(typing error)

Advocate Ravinder (Advocate/Attorney)     16 November 2015

To

Nimade. 

I have searched the entire net (including indiankanoon), but could not found. Can you send me Judgement. 

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     16 November 2015

THE FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF THE JUDGEMENT:


(4) APL 160/11

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
Amk
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 160 OF 2011
Sejal Dharmesh Ved .. Applicant
Vs.
The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents
Mr. Amit S. Dhutia i/b Niranjan Mundargi for the Applicant.
Mrs. A. A. Mane, APP for Respondent No.1¬State.

CORAM: MRS. ROSHAN DALVI, J.
DATE: 7th MARCH, 2013.
P.C.
1. The applicant¬wife has challenged the order of the Court of Sessions at Greater Bombay dated 27.10.2010 holding that her application under the Prevention of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (D.V Act) is not maintainable because she was not in any domestic relationship.

2. The applicant married on 04.05.1999. She lived with her husband in the US. There are two issues from the marriage. She returned to India on 11.02.2009. 

3. She filed her application under the D.V Act on 18.01.2010.

4. The learned Judge has considered that under these circumstances, she having come to India in February, 2009 and having filed this application in January, 2010, there was no domestic relationship between the parties. The learned Judge has considered the definition of domestic relationship. Of course, that relationship is defined to be one of which the party then lived and had earlier lived. That would be during the subsistence of the union between them. The application under the D. V. Act could be filed, when the marriage union subsisted. That having came to an an end and long after the physical relationship came to be an end, she having returned to India, she cannot be taken to be living in any domestic relationship in India.

5. A wife who lived in a domestic relationship earlier, but which ceases only because of any domestic violence can certainly file an application for such domestic violence that took place whilst she lived in that relationship.
Such application is required to be filed within a reasonable timeto show that relationship would give her the cause of action to sue under the D.V. Act for the reliefs under the Act.

6. A wife who has returned from the USA and consequently from the domestic relationship and lived in India for one year cannot file an application with regard to that relationship after such time. Such wife cannot be taken to be in any domestic relationship. The order of the learned Judge is, therefore,
correct. The writ petition is completely devoid of merits and accordingly dismissed.
(ROSHAN DALVI, J.)

Advocate Ravinder (Advocate/Attorney)     16 November 2015

Thanks Sainath. 

SAINATH DEVALLA (LEGAL CONSULTANT)     17 November 2015

The original querist has disappeared.

sandeep (pvt service)     17 November 2015

as per my knowledge, this is the only judgement for 1 year or separation and there is none other than this


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