As per the case facts the appellant an aggrieved person filed a case under the D V Act The High Court and Additional Sessions Judge had set aside the Special ... Judicial Magistrate's order which the aggrieved person appealed to the Supreme Court The question arose whether an aggrieved person can file an application under Section of the D V Act if they are not in a domestic relationship with the respondent in a shared household at the time of filing but had been so at any point or had the right to live there and experienced domestic violence Finally the Supreme Court set aside the High Court and Additional Sessions Judge's judgments and affirmed the Special Judicial Magistrate's order holding that an aggrieved person is entitled to file an application under Section of the D V Act even if not in a domestic relationship in a shared household at the time of filing as long as they had lived so at any point or had the right to live and had been subjected to domestic violence

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