Court : Jharkhand Ranchi
..... case and arguments advanced on behalf of the parties i find that preliminary objection which was raised on behalf of the petitioner-husband on the point of maintainability of the complaint petition filed by the complainant-opposite party no.2 under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 was turned down by the sdjm ranchi on the ground that the marriage between the parties was not disputed though same has been challenged under ..... of pendency of matrimonial title suit and existence of the marriage certificate which did not draw inference to presume that in the given allegation, an offence could be made out under the protection of women from domestic violence act,2005.as a matter of fact, the complainant could not be stated to be an aggrieved person as defined under section 2(a) of the d act as she never lived with the petitioner-husband in domestic relationship as defined in section 2(f) or in a shared household as defined in section 2(s) of the act , as such, complaint of the complainant was liable to be rejected on the point of maintainability . mr. ..... the petitioner has invoked the inherent jurisdiction of this court under section 482 code of criminal procedure for quashment of the order dated 6.10.2010 passed by the sdjm ranchi in complaint case no. .....
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