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Aggrieved Person

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(a)]

The word aggrieved person, cannot be confined within the bounds of a right formula. Its scope and meaning depends on diverse facts and circumstances of each case, nature and extent of the petitioner's interest and the nature and extent of prejudice or injury suffered by him, Arun Kumar v. Union of India, AIR 1982 Raj 67

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