Domestic Violence Act is retrospectively applicable, SC declines to interfere with Rajasthan HC verdict

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The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (‘DV Act’) is retrospectively applicable to provide relief to aggrieved women. The Supreme Court Bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, R Banumathi and Navin Sinha affirmed this position when it declined to interfere with an appeal against a Rajasthan High Court verdict passed in 2013.

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