Women get abused in many forms, and these acts of continuous abuse have a severe mental effect on women, children and other family members. These forms of abuse get defined under section 3 of The protection of women from Domestic violence (PWDV) Act, 2005.
Domestic violence involves inflicting physical, verbal, emotional, psychological harm, etc., on the opposite gender (i.e. women).
Women get abused in many forms, and these acts of continuous abuse have a severe mental effect on women, children and other family members. These forms of abuse get defined under section 3 of The protection of women from Domestic violence (PWDV) Act, 2005.
Domestic violence involves inflicting physical, verbal, emotional, psychological harm, etc., on the opposite gender (i.e. women).
Women get abused in many forms, and these acts of continuous abuse have a severe mental effect on women, children and other family members. These forms of abuse get defined under section 3 of The protection of women from Domestic violence (PWDV) Act, 2005.
These are:-
Physical abuse
Sexual abuse
Verbal abuse
Emotional abuse
Economic abuse
Domestic violence gets defined in section 3 of the protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005.
The act states domestic violence as the conduct of the respondent in case it:-
harms or endangers the health, life, safety, limb or well‑being, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and includes causing physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and economic abuse; or
harasses, injures, harms, or endangers the aggrieved person to coerce her or any other person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any dowry or other property or valuable security; or
has a threatening effect on the aggrieved person or any person related to the women by any conduct mentioned in clause (a) or clause (b); or
otherwise injures or causes harm, whether mental or physical, to the aggrieved person.
Domestic Violence Act
The 2005 Protection of Women from Domestic violence Act consists of 37 sections in 5 chapters.
- Chapter I consist of its year of establishment with its jurisdiction and definitions of legal terms under this act.
- Chapter II consists of the definition of domestic violence.
- Chapter III consists of the powers and duties of the protection officers, service providers, etc.
- Chapter IV consists of the procedure for obtaining orders of relief.
- Chapter V consists of miscellaneous provisions.
The act’s primary objective included protecting women(whether wife or live-in partner) against the atrocities by the men or the live-in partner of the opposite gender.
