JUDGMENT

Fateh Deep Singh, J. - This revision by the aggrieved petitioner father-in-law Raghubir Singh Bal has been filed challenging an order dated 08.08.2016 of the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jalandhar in which earlier orders dated 03.09.2012 of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jalandhar had merged and in the impugned judgment passed in the appeal of the daughter-in-law Sarabjit Kaur and cross appeal filed by the father-in-law Raghubir Singh Bal, the Court below dismissed both the appeals.

2. Heard Mr. Simranjeet Singh, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr.B.D. Sharma, Advocate for respondent No. l and perused the records of the case.

3. The facts are that Sarabjit Kaur filed against her husband Gurpreet Singh Bal, his father Raghubir Singh Bal, mother Rajwant Kaur, brothers namely Balwinder Pal Singh Bal and Jarmanjeet Singh Bal, and sister-in-law Gurjeet Kaur wife of Jarmanjeet Singh, a petition under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (in short, 'the Act'). The allegations levelled by the wife fall within the compass that a marriage between the couple took place on 08.09.2002 and out of this wedlock a female child Har