{"id":7253,"date":"2025-09-22T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/widows-right-to-live-in-shared-household-affirmed-hc-labels-denial-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:04:24","slug":"widows-right-to-live-in-shared-household-affirmed-hc-labels-denial-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/?p=7253","title":{"rendered":"Widow\u2019s Right To Live In Shared Household Affirmed: HC Labels Denial \u2018Domestic Violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">In a pivotal judgment , <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> of the Bombay High Court&rsquo;s Nagpur Bench, partly allowed a criminal revision application holding that refusing a woman the right to live in her shared household amounts to domestic violence under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>FACTS <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The applicant before the High Court is the brother of the deceased husband of the first non-applicant. The first non-applicant married Mukesh Chauhan, the brother of the applicant, and the second non-applicant is their minor son. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">On 23.5.2008, Mukesh died and since then the nonapplicants tried to pursue a request for permitting them to reside in the house.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16pt\">As per the allegations, the applicant did not allow them to stay in the house. The mother-in-law of the non-applicant No.1(mother of the applicant) executed a Will on 29.9.2004 and bequeathed the ground floor to the applicant and first floor to the deceased Mukesh.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The mother of the applicant also died on 5.2.2007. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The couple initially lived in the shared household at Nagpur, then moved to Pune in 2004, following a family dispute and later shifted to a rented premises.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">When Mukesh died in 2008 the construction of the first floor of the family house was still incomplete. After Mukesh&rsquo;s death, the widow sought to return to the shared household with her son but was denied entry by the applicant and had to live in rented accommodation, paying \u00e2\u201a\u00b96,000 per month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:16pt\">She eventually moved the Judicial Magistrate First Class under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, seeking residence and alleging domestic violence.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The applicant resisted her claim, contending that she had not lived in the house with her husband after 2004, that a divorce deed had been executed in 2007, and that the Act could not apply as it came into force only in 2005.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Judgment<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The court examined the statutory definitions under the Act, including <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>&ldquo;aggrieved person&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> [Section 2(a)], <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>&ldquo;domestic relationship&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> [Section 2(f)] and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>&ldquo;shared household&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> [Section 2(s)], and held that these provisions cover women who <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>&ldquo;have, at any point of time, lived together&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> in a domestic relationship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Court asserted that none of the definitions require the domestic relationship to subsist on the date of the application. Past cohabitation is enough to invoke the Act.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The High Court also noted that under <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Section 17<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> every woman in a domestic relationship has the right to reside in the shared household, whether or not she has any title, right or beneficial interest in it, and cannot be evicted except in accordance with law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The expression &ldquo;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>right to reside in the shared household,&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> the Court observed, is <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>not restricted to actual residence; it can be enforced even when the woman is not currently living in the property.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Addressing the applicant&rsquo;s defence of a divorce deed, the Court pointed out that dissolution of marriage requires a decree from a competent civil court under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act and cannot be achieved merely by executing a deed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Most crucially, the Court held that preventing the first non-applicant from accessing the shared household amounted to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>economic abuse and therefore domestic violence under Section 3 of the Act.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">It expressly recorded:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>&ldquo;it provides that economic abuse would be domestic violence if the respondent prohibits or restricts the applicant to continue access or resources or facilities which aggrieved person is entitled to use or enjoy by virtue of the domestic relationship including the access to the shared household. Therefore, in view of the rights given under the said Act, the provisions of the shared household and domestic relationship between the applicant and the non-applicants may not be there. However, considering the non-applicant No.1 was deprived from using the shared household property and, therefore, the applicant has committed the domestic violence who was in the year 2004 in a domestic relationship with her. Therefore, the judgment and order passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge calls no interference. Only modification required is that instead of ground floor, the non applicant No.1 is entitled to reside in the shared household on the first floor in view of recital of the Will executed by her mother-in-law.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Accordingly, while the High Court upheld the right of residence granted by the appellate court, it <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>modified<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> the order to align with the Will and directed that the widow and her son be accommodated on the first floor instead of the ground floor. The rest of the appellate order was maintained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <hr \/>\n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16pt; text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Case Title: <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bombayhighcourt.nic.in\/generatenewauth.php?bhcpar=cGF0aD0uL3dyaXRlcmVhZGRhdGEvZGF0YS9uYWdqdWRnZW1lbnRzLzIwMjUvJmZuYW1lPTIzMDYwMDAwMjQwMjAyMl8yNi5wZGYmc21mbGFnPU4mcmp1ZGRhdGU9JnVwbG9hZGR0PTE3LzA5LzIwMjUmc3Bhc3NwaHJhc2U9MjIwOTI1MDYzMzEz\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0563c1\">Ashish Chandrakant Chauhan v. Mohini Mukesh Chauhan &amp; Anr. [Criminal Revision Application No. 240 of 2022]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pivotal judgment , Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke of the Bombay High Court&rsquo;s Nagpur Bench, partly allowed a criminal revision application holding that refusing a woman the right to live in her shared household amounts to domestic violence under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. 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