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Married Woman Living With Another Man For 15-Years Entitled To Maintenance From Live-in Partner Under Domestic Violence Act: Bombay High Court

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February 8, 2023
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The Bombay High Court in its recent order has instructed a former live-in partner of a married woman to pay maintenance to her under the Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

Initially, the sessions court had struck down woman’s plea for maintenance, however, Bombay High Court has reversed the same and allowed the plea.

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Case:

The applicant had been married to one Mr X, who according to her deserted her 20-years ago. The woman has two sons and a daughter from this marriage.

In the year 1994, the woman got acquainted with a vegetable trader Mr Y and started living with him along with her children. After 15-years of her relationship with Mr Y, she left him following a dispute.

In 2012, the woman lodged a complaint under the Domestic Violence Act seeking maintenance against her former live-in partner Mr Y (with whom she had parted ways with in 2009). The magistrate’s court held that she was entitled to maintenance but the sessions court overturned the order. It is thus that the woman filed an appeal in high court.

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Submission By Applicant

The woman had claimed that she had lived with Mr Y for a decade and half, shared household expenses with him and even her children from her previous marriage used to call him “father”.

Defense By Live-in Partner (Mr Y)

The man’s lawyers opposed the plea saying “merely living together under a shared household is not the only test of determining whether the relationship between the couple was in the nature of marriage”.

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Bombay High Court

Justice Bharati Dangre of the Bombay High Court struck down the sessions court order that had rejected the woman’s plea for maintenance and held that a married woman who had been in a “live-in” relationship with another man for over 15-years is entitled to maintenance from him under the special anti-domestic violence law.

Justice Dangre held that there existed a domestic relationship in the nature of a marriage between the couple. The High Court remarked,

From the facts of this case, it can be seen that the couple has held themselves to the world as husband and wife. Not only that, there was an economic exchange between them and they were carrying out the said business of trading (in vegetables). 

It is her categorical statement that he had, in fact, helped her raise the children and share household expenses.

The court further pointed to the woman’s statement that she had shared money received for her daughter’s wedding expenses with the man and now she was left with no funds to look after herself.

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Maintenance Under Domestic Violence Act

The judge said it would have to consider the fact that the Domestic Violence (DV) Act enacted in 2005 was a benevolent law for protecting women from violence. Reversing the lower court order and upholding maintenance claim for the woman, Justice Dangre concluded:

The term ‘abuse’ for which the protection can be sought has been construed to be operating on a wide compass to include physical and economic abuse.

Taking into consideration the purpose of the enactment, the provisions contained in the enactment are to be liberally construed to achieve the object of ensuring the welfare of a woman for whom the Act is intended to grant certain protection in certain situations.

The court rejected the man’s contention and relied on witnesses who had stated that the couple had lived together for a long time and the woman was known as the man’s wife.

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Married Woman Living With Another Man For 15YRS Entitled To Maintenance From Live-in Partner Under DV Act: Bombay HC

▪️1993: Woman's husband left her
▪️1994-2009: Woman co-habited with another man
▪️2012: Woman files for maintenance from live-in partnerhttps://t.co/MdfS7Z411k

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