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Hiral P. Harsora and Ors. v. Kusum Narottamdas Harsora and Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 9 S.C.R. 515
Bench Kurian Joseph J.
Decided 6 October 2016

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Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 - s. 2(q) and its proviso - Constitutional validity of s. 2(q) - Held; The object of the Act is to provide various remedies to women who suffer from domestic violence - Preamble of the Act also makes it clear that the Act is to redress violence, whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic - The definition of 'respondent' in s.2(q) is not based on any intelligible dijferentia having any rational relation to the object sought to be achieved by the Act - The microscopic difference between male and female, adult and non adult,

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