Supreme Court of India

Prakash Nagardas Dubal Shaha v. Sou. Meena Prakash Dubal Shah & Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 2 S.C.R. 969
Bench Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.
Decided 22 April 2016

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Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005: ss.12. 18 to 22 - Application for maintenance filed by respondent-wife against the appellant-husband - Sessions Judge held that since the parties had initiated divorce proceedings at an earlier point of time, the Act which came into force only later in 2005 was wrongly invoked by the wife and her application was not maintainable - Held: In the instant case, the divorce proceedings had not resulted in divorce - The unsuccessful divorce proceedings cannot adversely affect the maintainability of application filed by the contesting respondents

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