RIGHT TO LIVE IN MATRIMONIAL HOME

avneet TSA FOUGHT FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM’S RIGHT TO LIVE IN MATRIMONIAL HOME

In this case the complainant used to reside with her husband and in-laws in a rented accommodation whose rent agreement was in the name of complainant’s mother-in-law which was their shared household. The complainant came to know that her husband and in laws were planning to throw her out of the shared household.

TSA team filed an application for securing residence for the complainant in this case and on 27.01.2021, the ad-interim residence order was passed in favour of the complainant restraining the respondents from disrupting the existing status of the residence of the complainant  at the shared household.

After few days the complainant’s husband and in-laws of complainant vacated the shared household, took all the furniture and other household articles along with them and left the complainant and her child helpless alone in the household. The landlord of the said premises also threatened to throw the complainant out of the said property. The complainant did not have any source of income and her husband and in-laws left her alone in the household having rent of Rs. 50,000/- per month.

TSA team filed yet another application regarding breach of order and securing the right of residence of the victim wherein the court observed that the complainant’s in-laws have, by vacating the said premises, disrupted the existing status and have rendered the interim residence order granted by this court unfruitful. Hence the Hon’ble court while deciding the application directed the mother-in-law of the complainant to make regular payments of rent to the landlord of the tenanted premises and clear the arrears of the rent within 15 days from today and as a result TSA secured the right to live in shared household/matrimonial home of the complainant.