Yessss, you are the luckiest one :
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but you deserve as you provided this platform ;D.
Anyhow, regarding photos, yes we sent 5 (i think) photos of all of us included in the application (me, my wife and my son) at the time of application i.e in Dec 2012. Then, at DMP office, we gave the 4 photos of each and I send 5 photos of each member again with the med docs and passport, alongwith RPRF draft (as requested in the email I received) to NDVO.
But unlike you case, there was no timeline/deadline mentioned in my email. Yeah, I met someone at DMP office (a SPNP applicant) with similar email with similar sort of deadlines as yours.