This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr. P.C. to quash proceedings in D.V.C.No.12 of 2010 (DVC) on the file of the Court of II Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Tenali, Guntur District.

2. The petitioner herein is the respondent and the respondents herein are the petitioners in the DVC. For the sake of convenience, I refer the parties as arrayed in the DVC.

3. The complaint was filed under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short ‘the Act’), for granting the following reliefs under Sections 19, 20 and 22 of the Act:

“1. Residence order i.e., alternate accommodation/rent of the same level at Rs.1,000/-per month in terms of 19(F) of the Act;

2. Maintenance of Rs.4,000/-per month to each petitioner in total Rs.8,000/-per month under Section 20(b) &(c) of the Act; and

3. Compensation of Rs.5,00,000/-under Section 22 of the Act.”

4. It is necessary to briefly note the facts of the case in this context, they are as follows:

The petitioners are the wife and son of the respondent. The first petitioner married the respondent on 29-08-1989. At that time the parents of the first petitioner gave a sum of Rs.70,000/-