PROTECTION FOR WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
Perpetrators of domestic violence against women beware! The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 has come into force.
Primarily meant to provide protection to the wife or female live-in partner from violence at the hands of the husband or male live-in partner or his relatives, the Act extends its protection to women who are sisters, widows or mothers. Domestic violence under the Act includes actual abuse or the threat of abuse whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic. Harassment by way of unlawful dowry demands to the woman or her relatives would also be covered under this definition.
The domestic Violence Act gives protection to all Indian Womens from being harassed by the family. This Act initiates that a women is entitled for a residential right and alimony.
Social welfare officer is appointed for each district and is given the power to take up the compliant regarding domestic violence and give protection for the women.