ORDER :

1. Criminal Petition No.7027 of 2022 is filed to quash STC No.4 of 2022 on the file of II Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-XIX Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Malkajgiri.

2. Criminal Petition No.7033 of 2022 is filed to quash STC No.3 of 2022 on the file of II Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-XIX Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Malkajgiri.

3. The short question involved in both the cases is whether Section 31 of The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short ‘the DVC Act’) which prescribes penalty for breaching ‘protection order’ under section 18 of the Act, be extended to prosecution for beach of orders of maintenance and compensation granted by the Court under Sections 20 and 22 respectively.

4. The petitioner in Criminal Petition No.7027 is the husband of the 1st respondent and petitioners in Criminal Petition No.7033 of 2022 are the husband, mother-in-law and brother-in-law of the 1st respondent/wife. The 1st respondent/wife filed DVC No.46 of 2014 and the Court had granted maintenance of Rs.10,000/- per month to be paid to the respondent/wife and Rs.20,000/- per month to the son, which includes medical and educat