Bengal

XKolkata: The Calcutta High Court has set aside a magistrate’s order dismissing a woman’s complaint alleging breach of a domestic-violence protection order, holding that the existence of a civil property dispute could not by itself justify dropping the proceedings.

The bench of Justice Chaitali Chatterjee Das recorded that an interim protection order had earlier been granted in favour of the woman in November 2018. She later approached the magistrate alleging that the opposite party had acted in violation of that order. Her complaint, along with a police report prepared after the authorities received her allegations, was placed before the magistrate. The record before the High Court also showed that material relating to an ongoing civil dispute over land between the parties had be

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