Anita W/O. Anand Tambe vs Shri. Anand S/O. Eknath Tambe on 28 February, 2018
14. The enunciation of law by the Hon'ble Apex Court in Inderjit
Singh Grewal vs. State of Punjab & Anr., Zuveria Abdul Majid Patni
vs. Atif Iqbal Mansoori and Another, V.D. Bhanot v. Savita Bhanot
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and Krishna Bhattacharjee v. Sarathi Choudhary and Another does
not take the case of the petitioner any further. The marital relationship
is severed since twenty-seven years prior to the institution of the
proceedings under the DV Act. The petition is entirely predicated on
the premise that since the petitioner-wife is facing hardship,
notwithstanding that the marriage is dissolved in 1987, her well to do
husband must support her financially. Concededly, there is no
interaction whatsoever between the petitioner-wife and the
respondent-husband since the dissolution of marriage, not a single
instance of domestic violence is pleaded in the petition the theme of
which is that the petitioner-wife is living at the mercy of her elder
brother. Even if it is assumed, arguendo, that the limitation prescribed
under Section 468 of the Criminal Procedure Code is not applicable, it
is trite law, that any initiation of the proceedings under the statute
must be done within a reasonable period. Even if the utmost latitude is
given to the petitioner-wife and it is assumed that she was subjected to
domestic violence prior to the dissolution of marriage, the institution of
the petition under Section 12 of the DV Act after twenty-seven years of
the dissolution of marriage is, as observed supra, a gross abuse of the
statutory provisions.