NAINITAL, India, March 25 -- Uttarakhand High Court issued the following judgment on JUDGMENT/ORDER/RELEASE DATE:
HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA
AND
HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHISH NAITHANI
16TH JANUARY, 2026
WRIT PETITION (CRL) NO. 139 OF 2026
Soni Rana ... Petitioner
Versus
State of Uttarakhand & others ... Respondents
Counsel for the Petitioner: Ms. Geetanjali Dhami, learned counsel.
Counsel for the State: Mr. J.S. Virk, learned Deputy Advocate General with Mr. R.K. Joshi, learned Brief Holder.
JUDGMENT: (per Mr. Manoj Kumar Gupta, C.J.)
The petitioner is seeking a writ of mandamus directing respondent nos. 2 to 4 to provide immediate and effective police protection to the petitioner and her minor son; to direct the police authorities to ensure the petitioner's peaceful entry and residence in her matrimonial/shared household; to direct the respondent police authorities to restore the petitioner's possession over her matrimonial/shared household, from which she has been forcibly dispossessed; and to ensure that the minor son of the petitioner is not harmed by respondent nos. 5 to 9.
The petitioner claims herself to be the widow of Late Vijendra Singh Rana. Her case is that after the death of her husband on 01.09.2021, she was thrown out of the matrimonial/shared household and the respondents, who...
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