- Bhushan Kumar Meen Vs. Mansi Meen @ Harpreet Kaur (SLP (Cri.) NO. 7924 of 2008)
- Husbands EMI towards house to be considered in CRPC 125 Maintenance to wife, held by Supreme Court.
- Ganesh Vs. The State of Maharashtra (Criminal writ petition no. 892/2009)
- The HC of Bombay held that the maintenance includes even medical attendance and treatment.
- Inderjit Singh Grewal Vs. State of Punjab and anr. (Criminal Appeal No. 1633 of 2011
- SC Held , in context of Section 468 crpc. domestic violence complaint should be filed within 1 year from the date of incident, in view of section 28 and section 32 of DV Act. 2005
4.Prakash Nagardas Dubal Shaha Vs. Sou Meena Prakash Dubal Shabbas (Criminal Appeal No. 320 / 2016)
- Unsucessful divorce proceedings cannot adversely affect the maintainability of application filed under the Domestic Violence Act.
5. Hiral P Harsora Vs. Kusum Narottamdas Harsora (Civil Application No. 10081/2016)
- The Supreme Court has struck down a portion of section 2(a) on the ground that it is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution and the phrase “adult make” as appearing in section 2(q) stood deleted.
6. Mohd. Zakhir Vs. Smt. Shabana and Ors. (Criminal Petition No. 2351 of 2017)
- The karnataka High Court held that any person, whether make or female, aggrieved and alleging violation of the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act, Can invoke the provisions under the Act.
7. Prakash Babulal Dangi Vs. State of mahrashtra. (Criminal Writ Petition No. 3791/2016)
- SC upheld the decision of Bombay HC that the power to award maintenance under DV Act is in addition to an order of maintenance under section 125 of CrpC or any other law for the time being in force and not in derogation of provisions of any other existing law.
8. Anil Kumar Vs. Shashi Bala (Cr MMO No. 30/2011)
- No Maintenance under DV Act if No Evidende of Maltreatment or violence, held by HC of Himachal Pradesh.