ORDER :

B.R. Gavai, J.

1. These two interlocutory applications filed by the respondent-wife are part of series of a long drawn acrimonious litigation between the husband and wife.

2. For the disposal of the present interlocutory applications, we need not refer to the facts in detail. Suffice it to say that the appellant-husband and the respondent-wife were married to each other on 27th November 2004. However, the relationship between them soured. Various cases including the FIRs were filed by both the husband and wife against each other.

3. The appellant-husband filed a divorce petition being Petition No. A2742 of 2015 before the Family Court at Bandra, Mumbai (hereinafter referred to as the “Family Court”) seeking divorce on the ground of cruelty. The same was filed in the month of October 2015. During the pendency of the said divorce petition, the appellant-husband lodged a complaint against the respondent-wife with the Khar Police Station, making certain serious allegations against the respondent-wife. On the basis of the said complaint, an FIR being FIR No. 169 of 2016 came to