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3. The specific case of the petitioner is that he filed a written statement-cum-counter-claim in the said P.A.No.1386/2013 before the Family Court and also sought dissolution of marriage and the custody of the minor son. Another proceeding which is instituted by the wife is in the form of the proceeding under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (Domestic Violence Act) and an application under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act was filed before the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class at Cantonment Court, Pune on 11.02.2014. It is to be noted that in the said proceeding, the parents of the petitioner are also impleaded as party respondents and the major reliefs claimed in the said application reads thus:-

901.WP.4649.15.doc whether such proceedings were initiated before or after commencement of this Act. He would invite the attention of this Court to the provisions of Family Courts Act, 1984 and would submit that the jurisdiction vested in the Family Court is wide enough to consider all the reliefs that have been prayed in the application specifically preferred under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

8. I have carefully perused the copy of the petition and also the proceedings, which are instituted before the Family Court and also the application preferred under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act, 2005 before the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Pune. A perusal of the both applications would reveal that there is overlapping of certain reliefs. The relief which is sought in the petition before the Family Court is for dissolution of marriage alongwith the other reliefs