Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, after lodging the aggrieved person in a…

Section 9(1)(f) requires the Protection Officer, where the aggrieved person needs shelter, to make a safe shelter home available and to forward a copy of his report of lodging her there to the police station and to the Magistrate having jurisdiction in the area where the shelter home is situated. The report goes to both, not to one of them alone or to the State Government.