Section 30 of Domestic Violence Act "Protection Officers and members of service providers to be public servants"
The Protection Officers and members of service providers, while acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or any rules or orders made there under shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
Section 31 of Domestic Violence Act "Penalty for breach of protection order by respondent"
1. A breach of protection order, or of an interim protection
order, by the respondent shall be an offence under this Act
and shall be punishable with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to one year, or with
fine which may extend to twenty thousand rupees, or with
both.
2. The offence under sub-section (1) shall as far as
practicable be tried by the Magistrate who had passed the
order, the breach of which has been alleged to have been
caused by the accused.
3. While framing charges under sub-section (1), the
Magistrates may also frame charges under section 498A of the
Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or any other provision of
that Code or the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (28 of 1961),
as the case may be, if the facts disclose the commission of
an offence under those provisions.