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Being aggrieved by certain acts of his wife and her family, the petitioner invoked the provisions of DV Act. Learned City Civil and Sessions Judge was not impressed by the action brought on behalf of the petitioner as in his opinion, the Act was heavily loaded in favor of women and it does not contemplate any male member being aggrieved by domestic violence. Feeling aggrieved, the petitioner approached the High Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to settle the issue, the High Court relied on the Supreme Court decision in <strong><em>Hiralal P. Harsora v.\u00a0 Kusum Narottamdas Harsora, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/lL0M2ORj\">(2016) 10 SCC 165<\/a><\/strong>, wherein the Hon\u2019ble Court had struck down a part of Section 2(a) of DV Act holding it to be violative of Article 14 of the Constitution, and the phrase \u2018adult male\u2019 as appearing in Section 2(q) stood deleted. The High Court observed that if the said sub-section is read after deletion of the expression \u2018adult male\u2019, it would appear that <em>any aggrieved person, in terms of DV Act, whether male or female, is entitled to invoke provisions of the Act<\/em>. Having stated thus, the High Court held that petitioner\u2019s complaint could not have been trashed merely on the ground that the Act does not contemplate provisions for men. The petition was accordingly allowed. [Mohd. Zakir v. Shabana, Crl. Petition No. 2351 of 2017, dated 18.04.2018]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Update:<\/span>\u00a0By an order dated 28.04.2018, Byrareddy J. withdrew the above-mentioned order and restored the petition to the file.<\/p>\n<p>The order reads as &#8211; &#8220;Notwithstanding Section 362 of Cr.P.C., the order rendered by this Court earlier on 18.04.2018 is found to be patently erroneous and therefore the order is withdrawn. The petition is restored to file and the registry is directed not to web host the order passed earlier and to take note of the fact that the order is withdrawn.&#8221;\u00a0[Mohd. Zakir v. Shabana, Crl. 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