ORDER :

1. This Criminal Revision Petition has been filed challenging the judgment of the Additional Sessions Court IV Kollam in Crl. Appeal No. 27/2015 dated 9th June, 2017.

2. The first revision petitioner is the wife of the first respondent. The second revision petitioner is their minor daughter. The second and third respondents are the brothers, and the fourth respondent is the maternal uncle of the first respondent. The revision petitioners filed MC No. 39/2011 at the Judicial First-Class Magistrate Court, Sasthamcotta (for short, ‘the trial court’) claiming various reliefs u/s 12(1) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short, the DV Act). It was alleged that at the time of marriage, the parents of the first petitioner gave 100 sovereigns of gold ornaments to her. Moreover, her parents entrusted Rs. 5,00,000/- to the first and second respondents. It was further alleged that later on 15.4.2008, the father and brother of the first revision petitioner entrusted Rs. 13,00,000/- to the first respondent and his mother. It is the case of the petitioners that utilizing the entire gold ornaments and money given by the parents of the first petitioner, the first