The letter pertains to the issue of non-appointment of protection officers required to check domestic violence as prescribed in the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. District and Sessions Judge (DSJ), Rohtak, sent the letter to Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court on January 2 this year.

The DSJ, in turn, had received the letter from the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM), Jhajjar. The letter noted that the State of Haryana failed to appoint protection officers even after the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act came into force on October 26, 2006.

“The role of protection officer is pivotal and the absence of it causes hindrance while conducting the proceeding under the provisions of the Act by the court of magistrate. Some of the proceedings which suffer are, filing of complaints; effecting service of notice upon the parties to get the protection order passed by Court,” the letter noted.

A period of one year has passed since the Act came into force but the State Government failed to appoint protection officers, the judge said letter.