IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT

1. Hima Chug Vs. Pritam Ashok Sadaphule Crl. M.C. 3273/2011 Delhi High Court

2. Sunita Kumari Kashyap Vs. State of Bihar & Anr. 2011 (3) JCC 1932 SC

3. B.D. Bhanot Vs. Savita Bhanot 2012 (3) JCC 1854 SC

4. Saraswathy Vs. Babu AIR 2014 Supreme Court 857 SC

5. A. Ashok Vardhan Reddy & Ors. Vs. Smt. P. Savitha & Anr. 2012 [4] JCC 2417 Andhra Pradesh High Court

6. A. Subash Babu Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. 2011 (3) JCC 2189 (SC)

7. Jagdish Nautiyal Vs. State 2013 (3) JCC 1856 (High Court of Delhi)

8. Reema Aggrwl Vs. Anupam & Ors. (2004) 3 SCC 199 (SC)

9. Sunita Kumar Kashyap Vs. State of Bihar & Anr. 2011 (3) JCC 1932 (SC)

10. Ushaben Vs. Kishorbhai Chunilal Talpada & Ors. 29 2012 (3) SCALE (SC)

11. Smt. Indu Bhagya Natekar Vs. Bhagya Pandurang Natekar & Os. 1992 CrLJ 601 (Bombay High Court)

12. Union of India Vs. Prafulla Kumr Samal & Anr. 1979 CAR 72 (SC)

13. Daughter in law is entitled to live in parents-in laws property. SR Batra Vs. Tarun Batra has been overruled.
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14. Deoki Panjhiyara Vs. Shahshi Bhushan Narayan Azad & Anr  (Crl. Appeal) No. 2032-2033 of 2012 S.C.

15. S.Vanitha Vs. Deputy Commissioner, Bangaluru Urben District ( Civil Appeal no. 3822 of 2020) dated 15.12.2020.

In the above judgment, the Supreme Court has held that the Maintenance and welfare of the parents and Senior Citizen Act has no overriding effect over the right of residence of a woman in a shared household within the meaning of the Protection of a woman from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

It is also held by the Supreme Court that the right of a woman to secure a residence order in respect of a shared household can not be defeated by the simple expedient of securing an order of evection by adopting the summary procedure under the Senior Citizen Act.