In order to constitute a complaint there should be an allegation made to a Magistrate that some person has committed an offence . Here, except where a respondent is prosecuted under Sec. 31 of the Act for committing breach of a protection order under Sec. 18 or where a protection officer is prosecuted under Sec. 33 of the Act for not discharging his duty, the Magistrate is approached by a person for any of the aforementioned reliefs by filing an application under Sec. 12 read with Rule 6 of the Rules and Form II. The respondent who is the opposite party to such an application is not an accused. (Vide Sreedivya v Sudheer - 2009 (3) KLT 477) . Since he is not an accused , he cannot be arrested and produced or ordered to be arrested and produced before the Magistrate. The expression "complaint" found in the Act and the Rules has been used in a generic sense and is not to be understood in the context of a complaint as defined under the CrPC.