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2. Wife and son/respondents, have filed DVA.No.34 of 2010, under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as, "Act"), before the learned Judicial Magistrate No.1, Coimbatore, against the petitioner and others, for the following reliefs:-

(1) To pay maintenance at the rate of Rs.10,000/- each, towards medical expenses and clothing, under Section 20(1)(d) of the Act, (2) To pay Rs.20,00,000/- for educational expenses, under Section 20(2) of the Act, which includes Rs.5,00,000/- already spent by the Wife, (3) To pay Rs.10,00,000/- under Section 20 of the Act, (4) For an order to protect the right to reside in the share household, under Section 17 of the Act, (5) For protection order, under Section 17(e) of the Act, not to alienate or encumber the property.
(f) causing violence to the dependants, other relatives or any person who give the aggrieved person assistance from domestic violence;
(g) committing any other act as specified in the protection order.
19. Residence orders: (1) While disposing of an application under sub-section (1) of section 12, the Magistrate may, on being satisfied that domestic violence has taken place, pass a residence order-
(a) restraining the respondent from dispossessing or in any other manner disturbing the possession of the aggrieved person from the shared household, whether or not the respondent has a legal or equitable interest in the shared household;
44. In exercise of the powers, under Section 37 of the Act 43 of 2005, the Central Government have made the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Rules, 2006. Rule 2(d) defines Form, which means a form appended to these rules. Rule 7 deals with an affidavit for obtaining ex-parte orders of Magistrate and it states that every affidavit for obtaining ex-parte order under sub-section (2) of section 23 shall be filed in Form III. Application to the Magistrate under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005,, 2005, shall be in Form No.2. The said form contain the details of the prayers sought for under Sections 18 to 22 and such other reliefs. Details of the previous litigation are also to be furnished. At the end of Form No.2, the applicant has to give a declaration that the contents of paragraphs 1 to 12 of the said application are true and correct to the best of his/her knowledge and nothing material has been concealed therefrom. Applicant has to sign the application column and counter signed by the Protection Officer with date. Affidavit under Section 23(2) of the Act in Form No.3, is extracted hereunder:

70. Seeking monetary relief, by way of an interim order, depends upon the facts and circumstances of each case. If the contention of the petitioner that lumpsum payment can be awarded, only at the time of final disposal of the main application filed under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, has to be accepted, then the aggrieved person, who is in dire necessity to meet the medical expenses to herself or her child/children, educational expenses to the children, would be put to irreparable hardship.