SAHIBA SODHI vs THE STATE NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

Judgment text excerpt

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 14.11.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 09.12.2025 Judgment uploaded on: 12.12.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 917/2024 & CRL.M.A. 28189/2024 SAHIBA SODHI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. N. K. Sharma, Mr. Gaurav Bhandari, and Mr. Harish Kumar, Advocates versus THE STATE NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State. Mr. Prateek, Advocate for R-2. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The present criminal revision petition has been preferred by the petitioner-wife against the order dated 05.04.2024 [hereafter „impugned order‟], passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, SFTC (West)-01, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Sessions Court‟] in Criminal Appeal Nos. 96/2022 and 190/2022, wherein both the parties had assailed the order dated 08.04.2022, passed by the learned MM (Mahila Court-05), West, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in MC No. 300/2020 titled „Sahiba Sodhi vs. CRL.REV.P. 917/2024 Page 1 of 15 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:12.12.2025 16:05:11 Bikram Jeet Singh‟, filed under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2012 [hereafter „PWDV Act‟]. 2. The brief facts necessary for adjudication of the present petition are that the parties herein were married on 19.02.2012 according to Sikh rites and ceremonies. A male child was born from the wedlock on 21.01.2013, who is presently in the custody of the petitioner-wife. In September 2020, the petitioner instituted a complaint under Section 12 of the PWDV Act, alleging that she had been subjected to continuous harassment on account of dowry demands and verbal as well as emotional abuse by the respond