{"id":3247,"date":"2015-12-20T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-20T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:05:18","slug":"recent-judgement-on-dv-case-cannot-be-filed-after-one-year-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/recent-judgement-on-dv-case-cannot-be-filed-after-one-year-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Judgement on DV case cannot be filed after one year separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;\">What is the time limit definition for the DV case to be filed after a particular separation period.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;\">Ld. Justice Roshan Dalvi has passed a recent judgement where it is mentioned that a DV case is not maintainable after one year of separation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 17.4px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 5px 3px; text-align: center;\">IN&nbsp;THE&nbsp;HIGH&nbsp;COURT&nbsp;OF&nbsp;JUDICATURE&nbsp;AT&nbsp;BOMBAY<br class=\"yiv4915541916\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\" \/>CRIMINAL&nbsp;APPELLATE&nbsp;JURISDICTION<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">CRIMINAL&nbsp;APPLICATION&nbsp;NO.&nbsp;160&nbsp;OF&nbsp;2011<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Sejal&nbsp;Dharmesh&nbsp;Ved ..&nbsp;&nbsp;Applicant<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Vs.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">The&nbsp;State&nbsp;of&nbsp;Maharashtra&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Ors. ..&nbsp;&nbsp;Respondents<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Mr.&nbsp;Amit&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Dhutia&nbsp;i\/b&nbsp;Niranjan&nbsp;Mundargi&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Applicant.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Mrs.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Mane,&nbsp;APP&nbsp;for&nbsp;Respondent&nbsp;No.1\u00adState.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">CORAM :&nbsp;&nbsp;MRS.&nbsp;ROSHAN&nbsp;DALVI,&nbsp;J.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">DATE :&nbsp;&nbsp;7th&nbsp;MARCH,&nbsp;2013.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">P.C.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">1. The &nbsp; applicant\u00adwife &nbsp; has &nbsp; challenged &nbsp; the &nbsp; order &nbsp; of &nbsp; the &nbsp; Court &nbsp; of&nbsp;Sessions&nbsp;at&nbsp;Greater&nbsp;Bombay&nbsp;dated&nbsp;27.10.2010&nbsp;holding&nbsp; that&nbsp;her&nbsp; application&nbsp;under&nbsp;the&nbsp;Prevention&nbsp;of&nbsp;Women&nbsp;from&nbsp;Domestic&nbsp;Violence&nbsp;Act,&nbsp;2005&nbsp;(D.V&nbsp;Act)&nbsp;is&nbsp;not&nbsp;maintainable&nbsp;because&nbsp;she&nbsp;was&nbsp;not&nbsp;in&nbsp;any&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;relationship.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">2. The &nbsp; applicant &nbsp; married &nbsp; on &nbsp; 04.05.1999. She lived with her&nbsp;husband&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;US. There&nbsp;are&nbsp;two&nbsp;issues&nbsp;from&nbsp;the marriage.&nbsp;&nbsp;She&nbsp;returned&nbsp;to&nbsp;India&nbsp;on&nbsp;11.02.2009.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">3. She&nbsp;filed&nbsp;her&nbsp;application&nbsp;under&nbsp;the&nbsp;D.V&nbsp;Act&nbsp;on&nbsp;18.01.2010.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">4. The&nbsp;learned&nbsp;Judge&nbsp;has&nbsp;considered&nbsp;that&nbsp;under&nbsp;these&nbsp;circumstances,&nbsp;she&nbsp;having&nbsp;come&nbsp;to&nbsp;India&nbsp;in&nbsp;February,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;and&nbsp;having&nbsp;filed&nbsp;this&nbsp;application&nbsp;in&nbsp;January,&nbsp;2010,&nbsp;there&nbsp;was&nbsp;no&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;between&nbsp;the&nbsp;parties.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;learned&nbsp; Judge &nbsp; has&nbsp; considered the&nbsp; definition &nbsp; of&nbsp; domestic&nbsp; relationship.&nbsp; &nbsp; Of&nbsp;course,&nbsp;that&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;is&nbsp;defined&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;one&nbsp;of&nbsp;which&nbsp;the&nbsp;party&nbsp;then&nbsp;lived&nbsp;and&nbsp;had earlier&nbsp;lived.&nbsp;&nbsp;That&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;during&nbsp;the&nbsp;subsistence&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;union&nbsp;between&nbsp;them.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;application&nbsp;under&nbsp;the&nbsp;D.&nbsp;V.&nbsp;Act&nbsp;could&nbsp;be&nbsp;filed,&nbsp;when&nbsp;the&nbsp;marriage&nbsp;union&nbsp;subsisted.&nbsp;&nbsp;That&nbsp;having&nbsp;came&nbsp;to&nbsp;an&nbsp;an&nbsp;end&nbsp;and&nbsp;long&nbsp;after&nbsp;the&nbsp;physical&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;came&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;an&nbsp;end,&nbsp;she&nbsp;having&nbsp;returned&nbsp;to&nbsp;India,&nbsp;she&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;be&nbsp;taken&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;living&nbsp;in&nbsp;any&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;in&nbsp;India.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">5. A&nbsp;wife&nbsp;who&nbsp;lived&nbsp;in&nbsp; a&nbsp; domestic&nbsp; relationship&nbsp;earlier,&nbsp; but&nbsp;which&nbsp;ceases&nbsp;only&nbsp;because&nbsp;of&nbsp;any&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;violence&nbsp;can&nbsp;certainly&nbsp;file&nbsp;an&nbsp;application&nbsp;for&nbsp;such&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;violence&nbsp;that&nbsp;took&nbsp;place&nbsp;whilst&nbsp;she&nbsp;lived&nbsp;in&nbsp;that&nbsp;relationship.&nbsp;Such&nbsp;application&nbsp;is&nbsp;required&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;filed&nbsp;within&nbsp;a&nbsp;reasonable&nbsp;time&nbsp;to&nbsp;show&nbsp;that&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;would&nbsp;give&nbsp;her&nbsp;the&nbsp;cause&nbsp;of&nbsp;action&nbsp;to&nbsp;sue&nbsp;under&nbsp;the&nbsp;D.V.&nbsp;Act&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;reliefs&nbsp;under&nbsp;the&nbsp;Act.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">6. A&nbsp;wife&nbsp;who&nbsp;has&nbsp;returned&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;USA&nbsp;and&nbsp;consequently&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;and&nbsp;lived&nbsp;in&nbsp;India&nbsp;for&nbsp;one&nbsp;year&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;file&nbsp;an&nbsp;application&nbsp;with&nbsp;regard&nbsp;to&nbsp;that&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;after&nbsp;such&nbsp;time.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such&nbsp;wife&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;be&nbsp;taken&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;in&nbsp;any&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;relationship.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;order&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;learned&nbsp;Judge&nbsp;is,&nbsp;therefore,&nbsp;correct.&nbsp; &nbsp; The&nbsp;writ&nbsp; petition&nbsp;is&nbsp; completely&nbsp; devoid&nbsp; of&nbsp;merits&nbsp; and&nbsp; accordingly&nbsp;dismissed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">(ROSHAN&nbsp;DALVI,&nbsp;J.)<br class=\"yiv4915541916\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\" \/><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br class=\"yiv4915541916\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bombayhighcourt.nic.in\/generatenew.php?path=.\/data\/criminal\/2013\/&amp;fname=APL16011070313.pdf&amp;smflag=N\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/bombayhighcourt.nic.in\/generatenew.php?path=.\/data\/criminal\/2013\/&amp;fname=APL16011070313.pdf&amp;smflag=N\">http:\/\/bombayhighcourt.nic.in\/generatenew.php?path=.\/data\/criminal\/2013\/&amp;fname=APL16011070313.pdf&amp;smflag=N<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Can some lawyer may please advise, shall i get relief in such case as my wife has left me in year 2010 and has filed the DV case by making me, my both parents, and my brother as respondent&#8230;.year 2013&#8230;Specifically she remarked that she left in year 2010, while we have abusive words altercations till august 2012&#8230;..<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;\">What relief i can sought out of it&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/recent-judgement-on-dv-case-cannot-be-filed-after-one-year-separation\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the time limit definition for the DV case to be filed after a particular separation period. Ld. Justice Roshan Dalvi has passed a recent judgement where it is mentioned that a DV case is not maintainable after one year of separation. IN&nbsp;THE&nbsp;HIGH&nbsp;COURT&nbsp;OF&nbsp;JUDICATURE&nbsp;AT&nbsp;BOMBAYCRIMINAL&nbsp;APPELLATE&nbsp;JURISDICTION CRIMINAL&nbsp;APPLICATION&nbsp;NO.&nbsp;160&nbsp;OF&nbsp;2011 Sejal&nbsp;Dharmesh&nbsp;Ved ..&nbsp;&nbsp;Applicant Vs. The&nbsp;State&nbsp;of&nbsp;Maharashtra&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Ors. ..&nbsp;&nbsp;Respondents Mr.&nbsp;Amit&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Dhutia&nbsp;i\/b&nbsp;Niranjan&nbsp;Mundargi&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Applicant. Mrs.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Mane,&nbsp;APP&nbsp;for&nbsp;Respondent&nbsp;No.1\u00adState. CORAM :&nbsp;&nbsp;MRS.&nbsp;ROSHAN&nbsp;DALVI,&nbsp;J. 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