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Jurisdiction in domestic violence Woman must temporarily reside at place of filing plaint

Jurisdiction in domestic violence Woman must temporarily reside at place of filing plaint

Prashant and Anr vs Sau Madhuri and Others

Bombay HC, Nagpur Bench

06/04/2018

Criminal Revision Application  No.  146 of 2017

About/from the judgment:

Pursuing of some cases from a place cannot be equated with temporary residence at that place. Temporary residence requires residence at a place on continuing basis in pursuit of some activity or want or need which may be economic, educational, financial, cultural, social and the like which comes to an end when the goal or purpose is achieved. The period or such residence would vary depending upon the purpose for which it is taken. But, such residence cannot be a residence created just to conferterritorial jurisdiction upon a Magistrate of aplace or otherwise, it would be easy for a woman well equipped with resources to go to a far away place, set up a temporary residence there just to file a case and file a case to get the pleasure of seeing husband or person in domestic relationship being put to travails of long travels and high expenses. So, to my mind, in the context of Section 27 of the D. V. Act, temporary residence means a residence set up or acquired in the ordinary course of human affairs and is not a residence set up with anintention to file a case and confer jurisdiction upon the magistrate. This is the meaning, plainly and naturally, conveyed by combined reading of key words used in Section 27 of the D. V. Act, which are “resides or carries on business or is employed”.

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