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2020 Supreme(MP) 403

S. K. Awasthi, J.
Ravi v. Smt. Sarita
Criminal Revision No. 1152 of 2018 (I); Decided on 9.1.2020

Advocates:
Vismit Panot for applicant.

Headnote:

Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 -- S. 23 -- interim maintenance -- Rs. 10,000/- p.m. awarded -- during pendency of revision, final order passed by trial Court -- relief under section 23 refused as she failed to establish any domestic violence and dispute is civil in nature -- civil suit pending -- in reply to injunction application, she stated that she posseses agricultural land and earns money from it -- Courts below committed error in directing applicants to pay interim maintenance to respondent -- impugned orders set aside. [Para 7]

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ORDER

1. The applicants have preferred this petition under section 397 R/w section 401 of CrPC against the order dated 29.1.2018 passed by Second Additional Sessions Judge, Dewas in Criminal Appeal No.120/2017 whereby the appeal filed by the applicants against the order dated 29.5.2017 passed by Judicial Magistrate First Class, Dewas in Criminal Case No.258/2016 has been affirmed by which the applicants are directed to pay Rs. 10,000/- per month as interim maintenance to the respondent.

2. Brief facts of the case are that the respondent has filed an application under section 12 of Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act ( in short " DV Act") before the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Dewas alleging that she got married with Praveen s/o applicant No.2 by Hindu Rites and Rituals in the year 2003. After the marriage respondent gave birth to two children namely Tanish, aged about 14 years and Anushka, aged about 9 years, however, her husband died in road accident on 30.5.2013. Her father-in-law also died before the 5 years of the death of her husband Praveen. Her father in law was purchased 8 Bighas agricultural land at Village Bijalpur as well as Hathonouri, Tehsil and District Indore in the name of her husband and her brother-in-law. During the life time of her husband, he and his brother were jointly cultivating the agricultural land and earned money. After 6 months of death of her husband, the behavior of the applicants has changed and they started ill-treating and pressurized her to give up her rights on the above agricultural land. They also denied depositing the schools fees of her children. On 18.6.2016, the applicants quarreled with her, then she called her father and left her matrimonial house. She started living with her father's house. The respondent also pleaded that she has no source of income to maintain herself and her children whereas the applicants are earning Rs. 4,50,000/- per annum from the agricultural land, therefore, a prayer was made for direction to applicants to pay Rs. 2,25,000/- per annum as maintenance for herself and her children.

3. The applicants denied all the averments of the application and stated that in their reply that during the life of in husband, respondent along with her husband started living separately. Thereafter she herself left the company of the applicant and started residing with her father alongwith her children at Dewas. It is further pleaded that the respondent earned money from the agricultural land which she got in partition, from June 2014 to June 2016. Though Shankarlal, the father-in-law of the respondent purchased agricultural land in the name of her husband and brother-in-law but after the death of Shankarlal, all legal representatives of were having equal rights in the agricultural land but the respondent did not want to give the land to other legal representatives of her father-in-law and she filed this application on the false ground. Hence, they prays for rejection of the application.

4. Learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Dewas by order dated 29.5.2017 directed the applicants to pay Rs. 4,000/- as interim maintenance to the respondent and Rs. 3,000/- each to her minor son and daughter. Being aggrieved by the aforesaid order, the applicants have preferred criminal appeal before the Sessions Court and the learned Second Additional Session Judge, Dewas vide order dated 29.1.2018 rejected the said appeal by affirming the order of trial Court. This order is subject matter of challenge in the present revision application.

5. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that dispute arose between the applicants and nonapplicant regarding the agricultural land. The respondent did not want to give share of the agricultural land which was purchased by her father-in-law late Shankarlal. The applicant No. 2 filed a Civil Suit No. 750-A/2017 before the II Civil Judge Class-II, Indore. In this case she filed an application under Order 39 rule 1 and 2 read w

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