Kerala High Court Refers Parties To Counselling In Pantheerankavu Domestic Violence Case
Live LawThe Kerala High Court has directed Rahul P Gopal, accused of attempting to strangle his wife using cable wire after she failed to fulfil his dowry demands, to appear for counselling before the Kerala State Legal Services Authority. Therefore, parties are directed to referred to KeLSA with a direction to the member secretary KeLSA to have counselling of both parties by a competent counselor by next week and filed a report in sealed cover for perusal of the Court.” Both Rahul and the de facto complainant appeared in person before the Court today. The parties submitted that the case pertains to some domestic incidents normally happening in married life and that they intend to live together. The Public Prosecutor also submitted that he would not stand in the way of the parties if they wanted to really live together.