Malashri v. Sharanamma
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Sister-in-law and her husband (petitioner No. 1) succeeded before the High Court of Karnataka in quashing, as against them, proceedings under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act filed by the respondent-wife: no specific or substantive allegations against the petitioners; maintenance, custody and compensation reliefs enforceable primarily against the husband; no domestic relationship with married sisters-in-law living in their matrimonial homes; respondent admittedly residing in her parental home for the last two years; respondent could not claim aggrieved-person status vis-à-vis the petitioners; continuation held to be misuse of the process of law; petition allowed and proceedings quashed insofar as the petitioners are concerned. CAUTION: the supplied text is severely corrupted (font/encoding loss producing unreadable character runs); case number, filing/decision dates, party names, advocates, coram and exact statutory section numbers are illegible and returned as null/[]; statute identifications are reconstructions from a partially decipherable glyph pattern and should be independently verified before citation.