Court : Mumbai Nagpur
..... the main contention of the petitioner is that the application under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 was inordinately delayed and there was no reasonable explanation for the delay and, secondly, that petitioner is not liable to pay maintenance particularly to the son who is already attained age of ..... considering all these contentions and counter contentions, the application preferred under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 was allowed partly with direction against the petitioner requiring him to pay maintenance in the sum of ..... petitioner is facing proceedings initiated under section 12 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005 (act 43 of 2005), which was registered as criminal application no. ..... 12 which require application before the magistrate for obtaining order or reliefs under the act contains proviso to the effect that before passing any order on such application, the magistrate shall take into consideration any domestic incident report received by him from the protection officer or the service provider. ..... the aggrieved person can come within definition of "domestic violence" explained in chapter ii of the act. ..... in view of the section 473 of the code of criminal procedure, the court can take cognizance of an offence not only when it is satisfied on the facts and circumstances of the case that the delay has been properly explained or but also when that is necessary so to do in the interests .....
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