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Section 44 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 provides that a person cannot transfer a right greater than he himself has, but the same does not preclude the co-owner from transferring his share in the joint property only because the same is unpartitioned/undivided.
The accused has spent more than six years in custody, despite which, the matter is still at the stage of examination of prosecution witnesses and only 11 out of 100 witnesses are examined till now.
Despite having multiple opportunities to report the alleged acts, complainant remained silent. Her complaint came only after the pregnancy was discovered. The Court stated that these facts lend credence to the possibility that the FIR was a reaction to social pressure and the nature of the relationship was re-cast retrospectively to explain an unwanted pregnancy.
Such matters are now filed in the heat of the moment on advice of counsel by exaggerating and misconstruing actual events. However, this does not mean that genuine cases of harassment didn’t exist, and it is not blind to the ground reality of the deeply rooted social evil of greed for dowry.
In the present case, the allegation against the respondent (‘man’) was of domestic violence, while he lived in a shared household with the petitioner (‘woman’) for almost seven years in a domestic relationship, if not as a married couple but at least as a couple in the nature of marriage.
‘The allocation of the family resource cake should align with the financial needs of each family member’