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Bombay High Court Quashes Orders in Domestic Violence Act Jurisdiction Dispute — Holds That JMFC at Akot Lacks Jurisdiction as Incident Occurred at Nasik. Section 27 of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 Requires Proceedings at Place of Residence or Employment of Aggrieved Person.

The petitioners, Ramesh s/o Mohanlal Bhutada and Shobha w/o Ramesh Bhutada, filed a Criminal Writ Petition before the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench,...

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Bombay High Court Allows Transfer of Domestic Violence Case from Khamgaon to Jamner for Convenience of Husband and Aged Parents. The court held that the wife's filing of the case at a distant place where no cause of action arose amounted to harassment, warranting transfer under Section 407 CrPC.

The petitioner, Vijay Sudhakar Patil, filed an application under Sections 407 and 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code seeking transfer of Misc. Crimina...

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High Court of Bombay Upholds Maintainability of Application Under Section 20 DV Act in Specific Relief Act Suit; Relying on Section 26, Court Holds Such Monetary Relief Can Be Sought in Any Pending Legal Proceeding

The dispute arose from a matrimonial conflict between the husband and wife, married in 1997, with two children. The wife had filed Petition B No.2/201...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeals in Section 498A Jurisdiction Case, Holding That Courts at Wife's Parental Home Have Jurisdiction. The court ruled that cruelty under Section 498A IPC is a continuing offence and its consequences ensue at the parental home, conferring jurisdiction under Section 179 CrPC.

The case involves a group of appeals concerning the jurisdictional issue under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Code of Criminal Pr...