1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Criminal Writ Petition No. 622/2009 [Satish Bhaskar Chopade & Ors. Vs. State of maharashtra & Ano.] ..................................................................................................................................................................... Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ..................................................................................................................................................................... Shri Anil. S. Mardikar, Advocate for petitioner. Shri J. B. Jaiswal, APP for respondent no.1/State. Shri S. V. Sirpurkar, Advocate for respondent no.2. CORAM : R.G. KETKAR, J. DATED : DECEMBER 20, 2010. Heard Shri Mardikar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Shri J. B. Jaiswal, learned APP for respondent no.1 and Shri Sirpurkar learned counsel for respondent no.2. After the matter was argued at some length, Shri Mardikar states that he will not press this petition if the petitioner no.2 who is resident of Thane is give exemption from appearing before the learned Magistrate, who is seized of application under Section 12 of the Protection of Women From Domestic Violence, 2005 (for short the Act). He states that petitioner no. 2 is about 67 years old and is resident of Thane. The application under Section 12 of the Act is filed by the respondent no.2 at Buldhana. He therefore prays that petitioner no.2 may be exempted from appearing. I find the request made by the learned counsel for the petitioner to be reasonable. In 2 view of this, exemption is granted to the petitioner no.2 from appearing before the learned Magistrate. However, petitioner no.2 shall remain present as and when required by the learned Magistrate. In so far as petitioner no.3 is concerned, she is at liberty to apply for exemption before the learned Magistrate. As and when such application is made, the learned Magistrate will pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. With these observations, the petition is allowed to be withdrawn. The petition stands dismissed as withdrawn. JUDGE svk