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It was contended that the role of the agencies providing counselling and mediation would merely be reduced to \u201creferral\u201d agencies, in case their role was merely restricted to merely informing the aggrieved woman of her rights and that their experience and expertise in the field would be whittled down to clerical work which cannot be termed as \u201ccounseling\u201d.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span lang=\"EN-US\"  >Dismissing the State\u2019s contention that the function of service providers are limited to the services enumerated in Section 10 of the DV Act, the Court observed that such an interpretation would be to read a socially beneficent legislation without regard to the objective it seeks to serve and the strides it seeks to make for domestic peace and harmony in the country, and thereby declared the circular to be discriminatory, arbitrary and unreasonable. 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