Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005–Sec. 20–Trial Court directed to husband-petitioner to pay 2000 US $ (Dollar) per month as monetary relief–Husband and wife were living in USA–Petitioner kept the wife under threatening that he would not get her visa renewed–He ridicules her for her dark complexion and for wearing indian clothes in America–He also dragged her in nude camps despite her inwillings–Wife had to return India–Held, all the acts come in the purview of Sec. 3 of Act–Courts below
rightly concluded that wife was subjected to domestic violence–Wife proved the income and assets of the husband by documentary evidence–Petitioner pleaded that wife has sufficient means for income but no reliable evidence was produced by him–Held, no perversity or illegality is found in the impugned order.
