Domestic Violence Case Application Mumbai
Domestic Violence Case Application Mumbai
1. That the present application is being filed by the complainant herein under
section 12, and 19(f), 20(i)(b) and (d), 22 and 23 of the protection of
described hereunder:
3. That the complainant and the Accused are Muslim and domiciled in the
wishers. The said marriage was registered with the concerned Mosque at
is in the possession of the Accused. During the initial five years of their
4. In 2008, the complainant and accused have 3 daughters out of the said
wedlock one, Ayesha Abdul Sheikh (2nd May,2008) and 2nd daughter 14th
May,2014, with their second daughter, Ayra Abdul Sheikh, and on 1st
May,2020 third daughter, Anaya Abdul Sheikh. Hereto annexed and
marked Exhibit “A” are the copies of Birth Certificates of the children.
5. The complainant says accused no.1 is the son of her father’s elder brother.
The parents of the accused who were comparatively well settled asked the
hand of the complainant for the son. Assuring the parents of the
Complainant of a better life and lots of love and care. The father of the
complainant convinced by his brother’s words agreed for the marriage and
6. That the complainant says, after a few months she shifted to her in laws
house. She started facing harassment for not bringing enough dowry. She
matrimonial home with great hopes to start a new family. The complainant
Throughout her stay with the in-laws, she had faced torture in the
matrimonial house for the reason of not bringing enough dowry to the
7. The Complainant says that unlike of the promises made by her in-laws
within a month of the marriage. The Complainant who came here with
Father in law and (Late) Mother in law started taunting and urging the
also shocked by the behaviour of his own elder brother. The Complainant’s
remain patient and be more humble and obedient towards the in-laws and
husband. The Complainant in any case had no choice so she became more
8. Despite, the Complainants humility and obedience the situation did not
improve and the Complainant further says the Accused no. 2 and Accused
no.1’s late mother started harassing her on the dowry as well as for every
little thing. They would not like dishes prepared by the Complainant and
throw the hot meals on the Complainant’s legs on the pretext claiming that
it is inadequately cooked. Many a times, the hot meals burnt her and gave
blisters. The Complainant says upon such situations when she would look
would support his parents actions. In the privacy when the complainant
no.1 would plead her husband to protect her and give her some congenial
promises that he would take care of the situation and make her life easier
would be a changed person and joined the in-laws in the harassment. The
things were descending and the cruel acts were continued by the Accused’s
family relentlessly. For every little issue the Accused no.1’s parents that is
Accused no.2 and his now deceased wife, would shout at the Complainant
at times would beat her and ask her to leave the house. As the Complainant
her family she would bear all the battering and violence at the hands of her
9. The Complainant says, the situation aggravated when she gave birth to the
eldest daughter Ayesha Abdul sheikh on 2nd May, 2008. They always
wanted a male child to be born first and when Ayesha came in and the
was 3 years old the accused no 2’s constant bickering became unbearable
that the Complainant did not give birth to a baby boy and on one such day
in great rage he threw hot food on complainant and asked her to leave the
house in front of Accused no.1 and his sister and other family members.
The complainant was begging the Accused and his family not to throw her
out of the house, and they spared the Complainant for that day.
10. The Complainant says she got scared with the situation and thinking that
this might repeat again, she called her father from the village to Mumbai.
The father of the Complainant came, stayed for few days and watched the
situation of his daughter at her home. When complainant’s father heard the
expletives from the Accused no.2 being given to his daughter and
witnessed hitting of his daughter by his own elder brother who was his
11. The Complainant says her father in law, the Accused no 2 started hitting
her legs with ice cold water bottles, her father was heartbroken and
intervened. The father in law sternly asked the complainant’s father to take
his daughter away. The complainant’s father took the complainant along
with him to Hyderabad (Ayodhya). She stayed at her parent’s home for a
year taking care of the eldest daughter (Ayesha). During this period, the
Accused no.1 never tried to make up the scarring hearts, assured and
back the complainant and her daughter to Accused no 1. The Father of the
aggression of Acccused no 1 and whole family agreed to send his daughter only
if the Accused no 1 lives with her in separate house. The Complainant says
bought the required household items for the Complainant to start as a new
life.
12. The complainant says, the Accused No .2 owns a successful scrap business and
regular income from the said business. In the year 2021 the Acccused no
1’s share of income from this business was Rs 70.000/-. The Complainant
says after the complainant and the Accused no.1 started living in an
individual rental house the Accused no would not give any penny to run
the house but would bring grocery and kitchen items. There had been times
when he would not bring anything home and children would sleep hungry.
The 2nd daughter was baby then and needed baby food which he would not
provide. The Complainant would do some odd jobs and make some money
13. The Complainant says the accused no.1 took an auto on loan, The Accused
Complainant says the auto was given by the Accused no 1 for plying to
others but as there was not good enough earnings and the Accused no.1
could not pay the monthly EMI’s so the bank took away the auto.
brother of the complainant no.1 came forward and gave some money to the
Accused no.1 for the household expenses. The Accused no.1 used to spend the
money for himself to drink alcohol and womanise and waste the money. He
no.1s brother noticed his behaviour, he started giving the money to the
complainant no.1. The Complainant says when the Accused no.1 observed
this he assaulted the complainant no.1 and took away the money. Then
when no choice was left the complainant no.1 started asking for adhoc
work from the neighbours and ended up doing basic sewing of the clothes
from the tailors nearby their home. The complainant no.1 says she is not
proficient with sewing, so she would just do cloth cutting. The Accused
the complainant was not skilled in the tailoring work, she had to put lot of
efforts for precision and in order to pay the bills, started working day and
night and was unable to give required attention to daughters. The life was
difficult. But continued with extreme struggle and half fed stomach.
15. The complainant says, the Accused no.1 forced her to have physicalrelation
with him and assault violently on refusal when she was on periodsor when
unwell and made the complainant very depressed and disheartened with life.
The Accused no.1 started repeatedly telling her that, the Acccused’s family
wouldn’t accept her unless she gives birth to a baby boyand then life will be
smoother for her to survive in the matrimonial house. When the Accused
praying out of fear for a baby boy. Ironically It was destined for
the postpartum expenses were all taken care again by the complainant’s
sister and her family who also paid hospital expenses. The Accused no.1
when heard of the daughter, he was disinterested to come to see the little
girl. The Complainant says after 2.5 months, when some relatives prevailed
upon the Accused no.1 he asked the Complainant to come back to Mumbai
16. The Complainant says the Accused no.1 and complainant no.1 started
living in that rental house again at Gulshan nagar. During this time when
complainant no. 1’s brother came down to Bombay for working, initially
he started living with Accused no.1 and complainant in their rental house.
The Accused no.1 started taking money from him and refused to pay him
back. Gradually, the complainant no.1’s brother ended paying the bills -
the rent, house hold expenses and school fees for the children and is doing
so till date. The brother still continues to pay all the expenses as on today.
17. The complainant says, while this is going on the Accused no.1 regardless
of the family condition, would invite his friends to their home frequently,
order complainant to cook for them and look presentable and pleasant in
front of them. The Accused no.1 was least bothered when the complainant
complained about their inappropriate behaviour with her and the Accused
no.1 used to brush off by saying “Isko itna issue mat banao ye sab chalta
hei ….. chaltha hai yaar”. The complainant seeing the un-understanding
attitude of accused no.1 on this issue had to simply bear it and tolerate.
18. The complainant says, when the complainant no.1’s father sold a piece of
land for Rs.4 lakhs in their village the Accused no.1 started to pester the
complainant no.1 and her father for the share from that Rs.4 lakhs. when
the complainants father refuse to give the money he started to assault the
daughter’s condition agreed to give the money. The Accused no.1. The
Accused no.1 after receiving the money did not spend any penny on the
and started going to prostitutes and staying/spending time with them during the
nights. The complainant was devastated after knowing his new habits. In
this overwhelming situation, the Accused no. 1 again started to force the
complainant no.1 for the 3rd child on the condition that she has to give birth
was not ready to bring one more life in this world, because she knew her
condition that she was unable to feed the 2 daughters and fulfil their needs,
to bring 3rd child would mean a lot of burden as she would not be able to
feed the 2 daughters and fulfil their need from one side and bring a 3rd child
would be a metaphoric sin. The Complainant says the Accused no.1 would
not listen to her and assaulted her for not having unprotected conjugal
relationship with him. The complainant no.1 conceived and the third time
also the Accused no.1 was not ready to pay the medical bills. The
complainant has to ask her sister to pledge her gold kangan and paid for
19. The complainant says, she was again blessed with a baby girl. The
complainant named her Anaya abdul sheikh. Born on 1st May, 2020. When
the complainant no.1 came along with 3 daughters and her sister to their
home at Mumbai, the Accused no.1 became furious and was pressurising
her to abandon or give away the new born. The Accused no.1 only wanted
somehow protected the girl. This whole incident scared the complaint’s
sister and the complainant. The complainant took all of them back to their
20. The Complainant says the Accused no.1 said that he do not want to take
any responsibility for this family. When the complainant no.1 did not agree
to abandon or give away the new born. The Accused no 1 was raging with
anger. The Accused no 1 took the complainant no.1 her sister and their
children all of them to their village in Ayodhya to her mother’s place and
they lived there for two months. The complainant says the Accused no.1
came to complainant’s maternal home and stayed there with the
complainant for two months. During this period the Accused no.1 lived off
21. He was least bothered to take the responsibility of complainant and their
daughters including 3rd new born baby girl. The complainant and her family
took care of the 3rd child. Even the postpartum expenses were not taken
care by Accused who is the child’s’ father. It was the complainant’s brother
who ended up paying all bills and taking responsibilities of the all expenses of
complainant, her daughters and also Accused no.1’s all the time during their
22. The complainant says, During the Accused no.1’s stay at complainant’s
house in ayodhya, his mother’s health became serious due to Covid. At that
time the Accused no.1 was showing reluctance to go visit his mother while
she was on deathbed. It was the complainant’s family who forced the
Accused no.1 to go to his home and take care of his mother and
subsequently in the last week of July he left back to his home to Mumbai.
23. The complainant says, On 12th December 2020, the complainant came back
to Mumbai and started living with the Accused no.1 in a rented house.
Though Accused no.1 & complainant were staying together in the same
choice but to continue the sewing work, despite the fact her health was not
good because of the post-partum. The complainant says that, she just had
to work so she could feed her daughters and all this right after 5 to 6 months of
of her 3rd child delivery. The Accused no.1 had always had weird sexual
desires and forced the complainant for the same. Whenever the
complainant resisted, the Accused no.1 would beat her. He would continue
24. The Complainant says the Accused no.1 started neglecting the household
responsibilities totally and started spending most of his time outside the
house and would come home according to his will. Whenever the
work the Accused used to torture the complainant with expletives and
assault her. Though accused no.1 and complainant lived in the same home
25. The complainant says, the Accused no.1 started the same topic on getting
pregnant and giving birth to a baby boy. The Accused no.1 again started to
push the complainant for the fourth child in order to get a son. The Accused
no.1 started fighting and forcing for the unprotected sex with him and get
The complainant tired of facing physical and sexual abuse and demand of
baby boy wanted to runway from the situation but had nowhere to go.
26. The complainant says, when the physical and sexual violence became
unbearable she was forced to go to Rajasthan and take shelter with her
sister’s family in the month of December, 2020. She could not stay with
the sister’s family for long and had to come back to Mumbai after a week.
Also Accused no.1 gave assurance to the complainant that he would work
and provide for the family and that she should comeback. Thus the
back along with her daughters from Rajasthan she started to expect things
as promised that the Accused no.1 would start doing any work as he
promised the complainant. When she was in rajasthan. The fact is nothing
27. That the complainant says, in the month of January 2021, the Accused no.1
started beating the Complainant for not getting into physical relation with
him and said talak 3 times by mouth. And then later on 9th feb he started
beating the complainant for the same reason. When she refused to have sex
with him he again said “talak talak talak……” more than 10 to 12 times
and asked her to get out of the house along with daughters. The
complainant had nowhere to go so she did not move from there. The
Accused no.1 started to threaten the complainant that if she do not leave
his house along with the kids he would make her and her kids naked and
drag them on the road in front of the public. The Accused gave her 2 days
time to leave his house along with the children. The complainant got scared
for her and her daughter’s dignity and left the place along with daughters.
28. The complaint says her brother made an arrangement of roof for her and
Accused no.1 brought some papers and asked the complainant to sign the
papers and threaten if she do not sign them he would abduct the daughters
and throw them in the flesh trade. The complainant was shaken with
incidents that were happening and was scared of the Accused and also
scared for her daughters’ modesty. She agreed to sign the papers. The
Accused asked the complainant to come with one witness near the court at
Bandra to sign the khulanama papers. To protect the daughters modesty the
complainants under a lots of force pressure and coercion took one person
with her to sign whatever papers the Accused wanted to get signed. This is
how on 24th Feb, 2022 the Accused forcefully acquired the signatures of
29. The complainant says the khulanama was obtained by force but presently
the issues are bigger issues about daughters education their maintenance
and family sustenance. As per the khulanama, the Accused agreed to pay.
by her brother. The Accused had not honoured to what he agreed to in the
khulanama. The Accused has paid very small negligible amount of few
thousand0 rupees till date that to he has not paid anything since august
month. The brother will be getting married soon and will be having his own
responsibilities and may not be helping the complainant and her daughters.
The complainant says that she is extremely worried as to how to meet the
31. The complainant says that, when she tried to connect on whatsapp with the
accused no.1 the accused no.3 had started using explicit words and texting
Accused no.1 several times but in vain. The Accused has blocked the
complainant on his phone and there is no way she can communicate with
him she has tried all her ways to make sure he takes his responsibilities
failing she is approaching this hon’ble court so that she and her daughters
can have a life of dignity. The complainant says after asking the accused
no 1 several times to pay for thechildren and family, the Accused no.1 sent
no.1 had sent a few times small amount of 2000 – 3000 Rs. only on
complainant and the daughters, the Accused no.1 used to send money to
the Complainant’s neighbour. So he could avoid meeting the complainant
would often not take their calls or revert the calls and on rare occasions
when he did and the daughters asked for money for their livelihood. The
Complainant further says there were times when there was no food at home
they would plead their father for help but the Accused no.1 would yell at
them saying that “mere paas tum logon ke liye koi paisa nahin hai tum log
32. The complainant says, On july 2023, when the complainant pleaded the
Accused no.1 about complainant no. 2 (Ayesha 1st daughter) education fees
who is studying in the Durga Devi Sharaf college 1 st year commerce. The
complainant asked for the tuition fees which was in total was 10,000 Rs.
After much persuasion, the Accused no.1 paid 4000 Rs. as a fee and refused
to pay further.. After that the Accused did not take any responsibility of the
33. The complainant says, On july 2023 end of the month the complainant had
sent Ayra 2nd daughter to the Accused no.1’s house as the complainant was
unable to feed the daughters and bear expenses of their education. The
complainant mother knew well that the Accused father was keeping the
child unwillingly and even the daughter lived there under fear but there
was no other way as she wanted the daughter to get education and her
necessities be taken care of. The Complainant mother would bring the
34. On 22nd August, 2023. The Complainant mother got to know that the
Accused no.1 got married to Accused no.3 Shabnam Abdul Shaikh. The
Accused no.1 and Accused no.3 were in a relationship for a long time and
then got married. After Accused no.3 started living with the Accused no.1
in his home. The daughter Ayra started facing more hostility at her Father’s
home. The Complainant no 3 started treating her as her personal maid. She
would make the 9 year old massage her, rub her feet, bring her food tend
to her small homely work. As if this was not enough The Accused no.3
make reels (videos on insta and facebook). The Accused no 3 would make
the little girl photographer for her reels and do her makeup and instigate
her to make reels. She would brainwash the child by telling her not to study
or go to school but make reels as these reels will give money to the child.
When the little girl confided this to her mother, the complainant got very
worried about impact on the tender mind and she brought the child back to
her and despite lack of funds she is keeping the child and trying to undo
the wrong influence on the child. The Complainant also realised that the
Accused no 3 has brain washed the child and tried to turn her against the
complainant by putting down her simple lifestyle, her aging with time, and
35. The Accused no.3 started corrupting the little girl’s brain. Eventually, the
household work and started abusing and threatening her and not feeding
the little girl who often remained hungry. The little girl would often insist
on not going back to her father but the complainant assuming she is well
fed in father’s home and getting education would bear her separation and
force her to go back ignorant of the fact what the child was enduring The
complainant was shocked when she heard abusive words from the little
girl’s mouth and then the Pandora box was opened. The Complainant
36. The Complainant says later when the daughters when tried to call their
father the accused no1, he yelled at them and blocked the Complainant’s
and the Accused no1. The Complainant says, with the help of her brother,
the Complainant started living along with her daughters in a rental place at
Ram Mandir. She started making tiffin for her brother and his friends and
with it she makes some money which is not even a bare minimum of
Complainant’s unmarried brother bears all the expenses of her and her
daughters. . The rent of the place is 11,000 Rs per month. Plus the
electricity bill it totals to 12,500/- grocery expenses and school fees are
37. The Complainant says since the day "Khula" was obtained under force to
the present day the complainant has been relying on the support of her
parents and brothers to sustain herself and her children. On the other hand,
Accused no.1, who possesses owns a share in his father’s scrap business
38. The Complainant is a destitute woman who have no other way left except
for this Hon’ble Court to knock for kind mercy and justice. The
Complainant has tried all means to see that the Respondent shoulders his
responsibilities, failing which she has approached this Hon’ble Court with
PRAYERS:
a. The Accused be ordered and directed to restrict and prohibit himself and
be restrained from committing any act of the domestic violence upon me,
50,000/-
and to pay rent @ Rs.11,000 /- per month as provided under section 19;
c. May this Hon’ble Court kindly grant maintenance of at least Rs. 45,000/-
Dated
Complainant
Advocate for the Complainant