The Supreme Court of India ruled that a Hindu Woman cannot be evicted from the matrimonial home after divorce except through procedure sanctioned by law. The law does not have provision for the automatic eviction of a woman after divorce. Although a woman does not have a legal right to continue in the house of the ex-husband, the latter cannot use force to evict her.
A Supreme Court bench including Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SD Mukhopadhyay gave the judgment. The court gave the ruling while upholding an appeal filed by Ranjit Kaur. Kaur in her appeal had challenged the decisions of the Punjab and Haryana HC, which had upheld her eviction from the house of her husband after divorce.
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