This revision petition is filed by the revision

petitioner/husband under Section 397 r/w 401 of Cr.P.C.,

challenging the order passed by the LVII Additional City

Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru City in Criminal

Appeal No.116/2015 dated 13.11.2015, whereby the

learned Sessions Judge has partly allowed the appeal by

awarding compensation in a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to the

respondent/wife under Section 22 of the Domestic

Violence Act, 2005.

2.

For the sake of convenience, parties herein are

referred with the original ranks occupied by them before

the Trial Court.

3.

The brief factual matrix leading to the case are

that the petitioner/wife has filed a petition under Section

12 of Domestic Violence Act, seeking a protection order by

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way of an injunction restraining the respondent/husband

from committing a Domestic Violence seeking maintenance

to herself and her children, medical expenses and

compensation from the respondent/husband.

4.

According to the petitioner, she was married

with the respondent/husband on 10.09.2000 at Sri.

Lakshmi Venkateshwara Kalyana Mantapa, Yeshwanthpur,

Bangalore and it is alleged that her parents have given

sufficient

dowry

in

the

form

of

cash

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