JUDGMENT :

Mr. Jagmohan Bansal, J. :- The petitioners through instant petition are seeking quashing of Complaint bearing No.COMA No.3422 of 2022 dated 23.09.2022 (Annexure P-1) filed by respondent under Section 12 read with other provisions of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short ‘DV Act’) and impugned notice dated 23.09.2022 Annexure P-2) whereby Trial Court has called upon the petitioners.

2. The brief facts of the case are that marriage of respondent No.2 was solemnized with Manpreet Singh son of Jasminder Singh according to Sikh rites and ceremonies. The couple could not pull on their matrimonial life and started staying separate. The respondent No.2 preferred a petition under Section 12 read with other provisions of DV Act. The petition came to be filed against husband as well as distant relatives and family friends. Jurisdictional Magistrate vide order dated 23.09.2022 issued notice to the petitioners herein along-with husband and family members of husband of the complainant.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners inter alia contends that petitioners are distant relatives of husband of the complainant or family friends of husband of the complainant. Th