JUDGMENT :

S.K. Sahoo, J.

1. Mother’s love is divine. It is unselfish and unending. It flows gently but unrelentingly like the holy water of Ganges. Mother is the root which takes all the pain in growing the child plant and feeds him right from the womb. She is the truest friend who gives support to her child in every situation. She takes food only after her child eats satisfactorily; she sleeps only when her child sleeps comfortably. What a tragedy when a widow mother in the twilight of her life is compelled to leave the house by none else than her son and daughter-in-law?

2. The petitioners are the son and daughter-in-law of the opposite party.

3. The opposite party filed an application under section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (hereafter ‘2005 Act’) in the Court of S.D.J.M., Phulbani against the petitioners seeking reliefs under the Act which was registered as Misc. Case No.3 of 2016.

4. It is the case of the opposite party that the petitioners subjected her to physical and mental cruelty and drove her out of the house for which she was constrained to take shelter in the house of her elder daughter Santoshi Kumari Sahoo at Nadikhanda Sahi, Phulbani.