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..... , sanguem, dated 18.03.2010, whereby the interim relief sought by the petitioner under section 23 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005, came to be dismissed. ..... shri rodrigues, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, upon instructions from the petitioner, is agreeable to provide visitation rights to the respondent and that such visitation rights shall initially be on every working saturday in the court of the learned j.m.f.c. ..... , i pass the following : order (i) the impugned orders passed by the courts below are modified and the respondent shall pay interim maintenance to the petitioner and her minor child at a sum of rs.6,000/- per month, from january, 2012 until the disposal of the main petition. ..... dessai, learned counsel appearing for the respondent, upon instructions, has agreed to pay a sum of rs.6,000/- per month as interim maintenance from january, 2012 onwards. ..... the amounts from january, 2012 upto july 2012 shall be paid after deducting any amount which at all paid by the respondent to the petitioner. ..... , sanguem, from 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. 7. .....
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..... , sanguem, dated 18.03.2010, whereby the interim relief sought by the petitioner under section 23 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005, came to be dismissed. ..... shri rodrigues, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, upon instructions from the petitioner, is agreeable to provide visitation rights to the respondent and that such visitation rights shall initially be on every working saturday in the court of the learned j.m.f.c. ..... , i pass the following : order (i) the impugned orders passed by the courts below are modified and the respondent shall pay interim maintenance to the petitioner and her minor child at a sum of rs.6,000/- per month, from january, 2012 until the disposal of the main petition. ..... dessai, learned counsel appearing for the respondent, upon instructions, has agreed to pay a sum of rs.6,000/- per month as interim maintenance from january, 2012 onwards. ..... the amounts from january, 2012 upto july 2012 shall be paid after deducting any amount which at all paid by the respondent to the petitioner. ..... , sanguem, from 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. 7. .....
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..... the respondent herein filed criminal miscellaneous application no.159/2009/a before the judicial magistrate, first class, mapusa under section 12 read with sections 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 ('the act' for short). ..... learned sessions judge, north goa, panaji dismissed the appeal filed by the petitioner herein, but partly allowed the appeal preferred by the respondent and held that she would be entitled to the amount from the date of the application till the decision of the proceedings on merits. 6. ..... the appellate court shall decide as to the date from which the order shall come into effect inasmuch as learned magistrate had not stated as to the date from which the order shall come into effect. 9. ..... considering that the matter pertains to grant of monetary relief in favour of the complainant under the act, learned sessions judge shall dispose of the appeal expeditiously. ..... the respondent also claimed maintenance at the rate of rs.67,500/- per month from the date of filing of the application i.e. ..... from a bare perusal of the impugned judgment, it is obvious that the lower appellate court has failed to exercise jurisdiction in accordance with settled law. .....
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..... only thereafter, the petitioner filed a complaint before the protection officer in form i under the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 seeking custody of the daughter amongst other reliefs. ..... the petitioner also filed an application under section 23 of the protection of women from domestic violence act. 3. ..... the respondent is alleged to have been running away from his creditors and for that purpose has been changing his residence continuously. ..... . i am of the opinion, if the child is taken out from the custody of the appellant, it would be traumatic for her, she appearing to be comfortable and well looked after by the appellant." 4. mr ..... not seem to be in any way adversely affected by the absence of her mother, i would consider it appropriate that she continues to be in the custody of the appellant herein, with visitation rights to the respondent, on every saturday and sunday, from the afternoon till 6.00 p.m. the ld .....
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..... 4 herein in the court of judicial magistrate first class, ponda, under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 (herein after referred to as the act ). ..... she has also filed an application for protection orders under section 19 to restrain the respondents and her husband from causing any domestic violence to her and to her child and to restrain them from dispossessing her or obstruct her from entering the matrimonial home at borivali, as also to restrain respondent no.2 from alienating or encumbering the residential house at borivali without intimation to her, selling or mortgaging her jewellery in the custody of respondent no.2 and for ..... also contended that since the petitioner had been residing separately from her husband and other family members since the year 2004, there was no question of granting any protection order. ..... the claim of the petitioner of the house at borivali being a shared household as contemplated by the provisions of the act, the respondents contended that same belongs exclusively to respondent no.1, the mother-in-law. ..... it is admitted position that the revision petitioner has been residing separately from her husband who is not a party to the present petition since 1st ..... besides, the petitioner had been staying away from the husband for more than four years prior to filing of the complaint which fact has not been taken into consideration by ..... further, since the petitioner had already shifted from that house, it cannot have the character .....
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..... petition involves a question of law as to whether subsistence of marriage is sine qua non for maintainability of a complaint under section 12 of the offence under the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005? 2. ..... /husband stopped paying the said amount, from august 2011, the petitioner filed application under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence (d.v. ..... defintion of domestic violence for the purposes of this act, any act, omission or commission or conduct of the respondent shall constitute domestic violence in case it - (a) harms or injures or endangers the health, safety, life limb or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and includes causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and ..... section 3 of the said act covers different types of domestic violence which is physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and so also various types of harassment threats, endangering lives verbal ..... of the chapter ii of the act which is captioned as domestic violence?. ..... no doubt that within the purport of domestic violence? ..... the term domestic violence? ..... domestic violence? ..... domestic violence ..... means any adult male person who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the aggrieved person and against whom the aggrieved person has sought any relief under this act; provided that an aggrieved wife or female living in a relationship in the nature of marriage may also file a complaint against the relative of the husband or .....
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..... an application has been filed by the applicant under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 (the act? ..... to meet the expenses incurred and losses suffered by the aggrieved person and any child of the aggrieved person as a result of the domestic violence and such relief may include, but not limited to, - (a) the loss of earnings; (b) the medical expenses; (c) the loss caused due to the destruction, damage or removal of any property from the control of the aggrieved person; and (d) the maintenance for the aggrieved person as well as her children, if any, including an ..... means any women who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the respondent and who alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence by the respondent. ..... - for the purposes of this act, any act, omission or commission or conduct of the respondent shall constitute domestic violence in case it- (a) harms or injures or endangers the health, safety, life, limb or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and includes causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and ..... section 3 of the act defines domestic violence? ..... after considering the entire material on record, the learned trial magistrate, by order dated 16.01.2012, held that prima facie it was shown that the applicant and the opponent are in domestic relationship with each other and that the applicant has been subjected to domestic violence by the opponent. .....
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..... filed an application in the prescribed form i and ii under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 ('the domestic violence act', for short) alleging domestic violence and sought protection order as also monetary benefits by way of maintenance of rs. ..... is, however, further held in the aforesaid case that section 2(f) of the domestic violence act embraces a wider concept by affording protection not only to legally wedded wife but also to a woman who is having domestic relationship which may not strictly be marriage but is in the nature of marriage ..... it has been held that a relationship in the nature of marriage is akin to a common law marriage which requires, in addition to proof of the fact that parties had lived together in a shared household as defined in section 2(s) of the domestic violence act, the following conditions to be satisfied: (a) the couple must hold themselves out to society as being akin to spouses; (b) they must be of legal age to marry; (c) they must be otherwise qualified to enter into a legal marriage, including being ..... it was held that the application under section 12 of the domestic violence act, at the instance of the petitioner, in respect of the alleged acts of domestic violence which took place when she had resided with the respondent, prior to 26/10/2006, ..... , the aggrieved person need not ask for all the reliefs available under the domestic violence act and she can ask for any one or more of the reliefs, whichever she .....
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..... , the respondent filed complaint against the petitioner and his parents under section 12 read with sections 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 (domestic violence act, for short), claiming total sum of rs.67,500/- for maintenance of herself and the two minor children. ..... court directed that a sum of rs.1,50,000/- should be paid by the respondent-husband to the petitioner-wife, for herself as well as for their minor son from the date of filing of the complaint under section 12 of the domestic violence act, 2005, till the said complaint is again disposed of by the trial court. 25. ..... shall pay to the respondent the amount of interim maintenance as directed by the trial court, vide the impugned order, by adjusting the amount of rs.50,000/- per month granted to the respondent under the domestic violence act, which is already paid as from 09/06/2011 and which would be paid, hereinafter. ..... that from august 2009, radhika was getting rs.50,000/- per month and rs.25,000/- per month under the domestic violence act. ..... dated 05/10/2012, passed on the application for maintenance under section 24 of the act, the trial court ordered the petitioner to pay to the respondent a sum of rs.75,000/- per month and to both children rs.50,000/- each, per month, towards maintenance, excluding the amount of rs.50,000/- granted to the respondent in domestic violence case and rs.25,000/- per month towards legal expenses from the date of filing of the application i.e. .....
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..... the complainant had filed a complaint under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 ("the act", for short) against the respondents which came to be registered as criminal case no.27/dva/ ..... the complainant was secured with protection order under section 18 of the act and the respondents were restrained by way of injunction from committing any act of domestic violence against the applicant and her ..... , insofar as grant of protection under section 12 of the act and the restraint from committing any act of domestic violence against the complainant and her family is concerned, is ..... the circumstances above, the appellate court could not have set aside the order dated 19/11/2013 insofar as the directions to the respondents no.2 to 6 to pay the amount of rs.1,00,000/- to the complainant and restraining them from committing any act of domestic violence against the complainant and her family, are concerned. 13. ..... terms of section 2(a) of the act, "aggrieved person" means any woman who is or has been, in a domestic relationship with the respondent and who alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence by the respondent. ..... domestic violence" in terms of section 2(g) of the act, has the meaning as assigned to it in section 3 of the act ..... 3(a) of the act includes economic abuse within the meaning of domestic violence. ..... considered view, there was ample of evidence on record that there was domestic violence meted out by the respondents as against the complainant. .....
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