The petitioners 1 to 3 are husband and parents-in-law of the 2nd respondent/aggrieved person in D.V.C.No.8 of 2011 of the lower Court. The 2nd respondent filed D.V.C. claiming several reliefs including reliefs of protection order under Section 18, residence order under Section 19, monetary relief under Section 20 and compensation under Section 22 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (in short, the Act). The petitioners’ counsel contended that even as per allegations in the complaint, disputes for the aggrieved person with the petitioners were in the year 2002 and there was separation between the parties in the year 2003 and that since all the said incidents happened prior to passing of the Act in the year 2005 and coming into force of the Act in the year 2006, D.V.C. filed in the lower Court in the year 2011 is not maintainable under the Act. He placed reliance on U.U.Thimmannav U.U.Santhya (2009(1) ALT (Cri)-285) of this in this regard. This Court observed:

“There is no dispute that the Act came into effect when the Central Government appoints 26.10.2006 as the date on which the Act was came into force. For acts of violence, certain penal provisio