Advocates:
['ADV GAURISH N AGNI', '', 'ADV SHUBHAM S MANERKER', 'ADV EESHAN USAPKAR', 'ADV TANMAI TULSHIDAS GAWAS', 'ADV RUCHIKA MISHRA', 'ADV ASHWIN D BHOBE', '', '', '', 'ADV THALI BALKRISHNA VISHWANATH', 'ADV FERNANDES ANNELISE']

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 229 OF 2018

Reshmi R. Salgaonkar

…...Petitioner

V e r s u s

Prakash Rama Salgaonkar & 3 Ors.

…...Respondents

Mr. Gaurish Agni, Advocate for the Petitioner.

Mr. A. D. Bhobe, Advocate for the Respondent nos. 1, 2 and 4.

Coram

:- NITIN W. SAMBRE, J.

Date :

15

th March, 2021

ORAL ORDER

Heard respective Counsel for the parties.

2.

Criminal Case No. 17/DVA/2015/A, was initiated by the applicant

under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act, 2005, which came to be

dismissed vide impugned order passed by the learned JMFC, Mapusa, on

19

th July, 2016.

3.

An appeal, Criminal Appeal No. 104 of 2016, against the aforesaid

order also came to be dismissed on 30.04.2018. The basis for dismissal of

the claim of the applicant was that the applicant-wife cannot claim right of

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residence in the property/house of In-laws. This state of view is expressed

rightly so at the relevant time by the Courts below in the impugned orders

based on the judgment in the matter of S. R. Batra and anr. vs. Taruna

Batra, reported in (2007) 3 SCC 169.

4.

The submissions of the learned Counsel for the applicant are that