Domestic violence: New appointee to submit DIR

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A Protection Officer has been appointed by District and Session Court on Thursday to submit Domestic Incident Report (DIR) in the case of domestic violence filed by Saroj Singh, wife of former CM Arjun Singh, and daughter Veena Singh against leader of the Opposition Ajay Singh and his brother Abhimanyu Singh.

On June 19, Saroj Singh had filed a petition challenging possession of leader of Opposition Ajay Singh on Kerwa Kothi and domestic violence and the case is the court of JMFC Gaurav Pragyanand.

During the hearing on Thursday Dipesh Joshi representing Veena Singh said that lawyers representing Ajay Singh have requested for time to reply to the petition filed and officer of Child and women welfare department appointed for Domestic Incident Report (DIR) would submit report on August 2 after recording statements of Saroj Singh in Delhi.

Advocate Vineet Godha appeared in the court on behalf of Ajay Singh while advocate Sajid Ali appeared for Abhimanyu Singh. Saroj Singh was not able to appear in the court and her statements would be recorded in Delhi and the report would be submitted in the next hearing scheduled on August 2.

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