Domestic Violence--Allegation Of ₹170 Crore Worth Unreturned Gold--DV Complaint Filed Solely to Prolong Litigation After Resiling from Mutual Settlement Agreement is Liable to be Quashed
Criminal proceedings under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 can be quashed where they are instituted not out of genuine grievance but as a strategic device to stall a mutually agreed divorce and extract further financial benefit. A claim raised for the first time in a DV complaint — never disclosed during mediation — and inherently improbable in magnitude, does not survive judicial scrutiny. Under Article 142 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court may dissolve a marriage on the ground of irretrievable breakdown and extinguish all pending proceedings arising from matrimonial discord.
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