New Delhi: A Delhi court has dismissed a woman’s appeal against a magistrate’s order rejecting her complaint under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.

Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan, who was hearing the woman’s appeal against the magisterial court‘s February order, said the protection under the Act could not be provided to those who misuse its provisions by making exaggerated or unsubstantiated allegations.

In an order dated October 8, the court said, “It has been alleged by the complainant that she was being harassed and beaten by all the respondents (her husband and his relatives), and that she had been kept in a dark room and also not given food and water.”

It said the woman had also alleged that she was regularly beaten up, besides being subjecte

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