2024:UHC:7350 Judgment Reserved on: 28.11.2025 Judgment Delivered on: 23.12.2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application No.557 of 2024 Sanjeev Agarwal ......Applicant Vs.

State of Uttarakhand & Another ....Respondents Presence: Mr. Pankaj Singh Chauhan, learned counsel for the Applicant.

Mr. Rakesh Negi, learned Brief Holder for the State.

Mr. Ayush Kumar Agarwal, learned counsel appearing through V.C.

Hon’ble Ashish Naithani, J The present Criminal Miscellaneous Application has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the Applicant, Sanjeev Agrawal, seeking interference with the order dated 01.02.2024 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate 1^st, Dehradun, in Misc. Case No.97 of 2020 (Parul Agrawal v. Sanjeev Agrawal). By the said order, the learned Magistrate issued a recovery warrant for an amount of ₹5,69,167/-, purportedly towards arrears of interim maintenance payable under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

2. The challenge in the present application is confined to the legality and propriety of the recovery order dated 01.02.2024, and the manner in which the recovery proceedings were conducted by th