Husband has legal right to home: Court on domestic violence case

Man told to pay `17K per month in maintenance; magistrate says whole family has right to access the property

First India Bureau Mumbai: A magistrate court has refused to dispossess a man of his residence jointly purchased with his estranged wife in case of domestic violence. It observed that as he has a legal right in it, he cannot be dispossessed.

“Besides, he has moral authority to share the home with his wife and daughters in order to look after their well being,” said the court. The woman and their daughters lived separately.

While directing the man to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs17,000 to his wife, the court said that the entire family has a right to access the property. The amount will have to be paid from the date the woman had first moved court in August 2021.

The woman moved the Domestic Violence plea against her husband, father-in-law and two sisters-in-law. She told the court that she

The court said the woman and her daughters have lost ‘this opportunity of financial and moral safety’ on account of the couple’s separation hoped that things would get better one day. married the man in 2017 and had two daughters born in 2008 and 2014.

The woman said that, however, she was blamed for problems in her sister-in-law’s life and was subjected to cruelty. In 2008, her other sister-in-law’s husband died and she was blamed for that as well.

Thane (PTI): Three girls from Miragaon in Thane district of Maharashtra who ran away from their homes have been traced within hours on an out-station train at Khed in Ratnagiri district, police said on Wednesday.

The girls, aged between 11 years and 14 years, were playing in a garden on the evening of March 06. As it became late, they thought that their parents would scold them and decided to run away. They reached a nearby railway station and boarded a train, without knowing its destination, a Kashimira police station officer said.

The petitioner said that she was taunted and abused soon after the marriage when she was living with her inlaws. She said she shouldered responsibilities at her work place and home and

She said subsequently she left her husband and was eventually persuaded to return.

After she insisted on living separately they bought the flat but her father-in-law too moved in with her and the harassment continued. The woman alleged that she was also taunted for giving birth to a second child, again a girl.

The woman said that her husband earned Rs1.30 lakh every month. She sought a monthly maintenance of Rs50,000 and wanted sole possession of the apartment.

Meanwhile, the parents of the girls lodged a complaint with the police as they failed to return home till late at night.

“Police managed to trace the location of one of the girls as she was carrying a mobile phone and found that they were travelling on Mandovi Express. They were traced at Khed in Ratnagiri district, around 153km from Thane, on Tuesday. They were brought home safely and reunited with their families,” the officer added.