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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 03.02.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 04.04.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 04.04.2026 + CRL.M.C. 5097/2024 & CRL.M.A. 19483/2024 ANURAG MANOHAR KANKERWAL .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Prateek Jain, Advocate.

versus SOHAM RANI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sunnirudh Kumar and Ms.

Ruby Rani, Advocates CORAM:

HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

JUDGMENT

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. By way of present petition, the petitioner-husband seeks setting aside of the judgment dated 01.04.2024 [hereafter „impugned judgment‟], passed by the learned ASJ-05, Shahadra, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Appellate Court‟], in Criminal Appeal No. 45/2023 preferred under Section 29 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 [hereafter „PWDV Act‟], whereby the order dated 28.02.2023 passed by the learned MM (Mahila Court)- 01, Shahadra, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in Ct. Cases 2271/2020, instituted by the respondent-wife under Section

12 of the PWDV Act, was partially modified.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

2. Briefly stated, the facts of the present case are that the marriage between the petitioner-husband and t