Supreme Court of India

Prabha Tyagi v. Kamlesh Devi

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Reported as [2022] 5 S.C.R. 970
Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 12 May 2022

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Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005: ss.12, 17, 19, 22 – Domestic violence – Allegations of, b y 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 the husband’s death, aggrieved per son tortured and harassed by her mother-in-law and her matrimonial family, a nd was forced to leave her matrimonial home – She started wor king to support herself and her child – Issuance of notice to the respondents to return her stridhana but there was no response – Aggrieved p erson then

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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