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2015 Supreme(Raj) 1336

RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT AT JODHPUR BENCH
Vijay Bishnoi, J.
Rajlaxmi and Ors. - Appellant
Versus
Dharmendra - Respondent
S.B. Cr. Misc. Petition No. 3023 of 2013.
Decided On : 9-02-2015

Advocates:
For the Petitioner:Haider Agha, Advocate.

Headnote:Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 Section 12 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Rules, 2006, Rule 6(5) – Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 Section 125- Maintenance under Section 12 of Domestic Violence Act empowers the court to send the husband for civil imprisonment just like Section 125 Criminal Procedure Code- Under section 12 of 2005 Act order of civil imprisonment can be given by the court if the husband does not pay maintenance to the wife.

JUDGMENT :

1. This criminal misc. petition under section 482 CrPC has been filed by the petitioners being aggrieved with the order dated 26.10.2013 passed by Special Judge, S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Cases, Jodhpur (for short 'the revisional court' hereinafter) in a revision petition preferred on behalf of respondent. In the said revision, the respondent has challenged the order dated 20.09.2013 passed by Nyayadhikari, Gram Nyayalaya, Mandore, Jodhpur (for short 'the trial court' hereinafter) in Cr. Misc. Case No. 82/2013, whereby the trial court, while disposing of the application filed by the petitioners under Rule 6(5) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Rules, 2006 (for short 'the Rules of 2006' hereinafter) and section 125(3) CrPC has ordered for sending the respondent for thirty days' civil imprisonment on account of his failure to pay the amount of maintenance as directed by the trial court while disposing of the proceedings under section 12 of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short 'the Act of 2005' hereinafter).

2. In the said order, the trial court has also ordered that if the respondent pays the maintenance amount before 19.10.2013, he may be released from the prison.

3. Brief facts of the case are that on the proceedings initiated at the instance of the petitioners under section 12 of the Act of 2005, the trial court has directed the respondent to pay maintenance to the petitioners to the tune of Rs. 16000/- per month from the date of filing of application. When the respondent failed to pay the said maintenance amount, the petitioners have filed an application before the trial court and prayed that a warrant for recovery of levying amount due be issued and the respondent be sent for a period of one month civil prison for non-payment of maintenance amount. In the said proceedings, the respondent was arrested and produced before the trial court, where he had refused to pay the maintenance amount, then the trial court vide order dated 20.09.2013, has ordered to send him to civil prison for thirty days.

4. The order of trial court dated 20.09.2013 was challenged by the respondent before the revisional court and it has reversed the order of trial court vide order dated 26.10.2013 while holding that before sending the respondent to the civil jail, the trial court has not taken into consideration the fact whether the proper course has been adopted in issuance and execution of the warrant for recovery of the due maintenance amount. The revisional court has also observed that as per Rule 6(5) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Rules, 2006 (for short 'the Rules of 2006' hereinafter) the order passed under section 12 of the Act of 2005 is enforceable in the same manner laid down under section 125 CrPC but the trial court has not elaborated that how the proceeding in respect of recovery of levied amount is to be followed. It is also observed that the respondent cannot be detained without obtaining the details of the movable and immovable properties belonging to him. The revisional court while setting aside the order dated 20.09.2013 passed by the trial court remanded the matter to it.

5. Being aggrieved with the order dated 26.10.2013, the petitioners have preferred this criminal misc. petition while claiming that the revisional court has erred in setting aside the order of sending the respondent to civil jail for thirty days, only on the ground that the proper process has not been followed in issuance and execution of the warrant for recovery of the maintenance amount.

6. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that under Rule 6(5) of Rules of 2006, it is provided that the orders passed under section 12 of the Act of 2005 are enforceable in the same manner as laid down under section 125 CrPC, however as per section 125(3) CrPC, the power of the Magistrate of sending a person to civil prison for a period of one month on account of his failure to pay the main






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