MR. JUSTICE S.RAVINDRA BHAT

1. This judgment will dispose of applications in two suits. The plaintiff in CS (OS) 505/2010 (hereafter “Kavita”, and “eviction suit”) seeks mandatory injunction against her son, Prashant and daughter-in-law, Eveneet (referred to hereafter by their names) to prohibit them from occupying the premises located at D-32, South Extension Part II, New Delhi, (referred to as “the suit premises”, in the eviction suit, as well as in the other suit CS(OS) 1307/2010, -which would be called “the maintenance suit”) on the ground that she is its sole owner and that they are merely licensees. Eveneet instituted the maintenance suit, under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 (Hereinafter, “Maintenance Act”), against Prashant and mother-in-law, Kavita Chaudhari seeking maintenance and right of residence in the suit premises.

2. Prashant and Eveneet got married on 27.04.2009. Eveneet alleges that the defendants in the maintenance suit, Prashant and Kavita, were unhappy with the gifts they received and were pressurizing her for a greater amount of dowry. A complaint under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (Hereinafter, “the Domestic Violenc

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