Domestic violence's in India

 

Domestic violence’s in India

Domestic violence is a pattern of pieces of abusive behaviour in any relationship that is used by one partner that is to gain or maintain power and control over another partner.

 There are different ways of causing injury to the victim 

Intimidation, manipulation, isolation humiliation, fear, terror, coercion, threats, blaming, injury, and these are malpractice could be done by a person.

Sometimes domestic violence can be related to a domestic abuse, relationship abuse, or intimate partner violence. This could be happened between the married couple, cohabiting partners, dating partners, and relatives

 It can happen to anyone people in all walks of life regardless of age, gender, standard, sexual orientation, race, religion, education, profession, or whatever is your economic status.

A frequent misconception of is that domestic violence always involves physical body harm but frequently it also involves emotional abuse, sexual abuse spiritual abuse, economic abuse and this form of abuse I like giving a threat, name calling, possessiveness, and countless other tactics and it can be harder to detect but real because it doesn't leave any marks or broken bones and the can may be dismissed or dumped both the victim and the abuser.

This act is applicable also to unmarried women staying with the family never born into or adopted by and also to unmarried women in live in relationships with men, 

through the enactment of Section 498 a of the Indian Penal Code violence against married women has been a crime in India since 1983

But the 2005 act is a watershed moment in Indian law as it outlines the creation of a support system for all women who have faced domestic violence an aggrieved woman can contact list of people or organisations that can help her come out of her situation. In addition to this the act also gives a woman the right to order protection against hot husband and family that means the woman who files a complaint against a member of her marital home has a right to continue living in that house and cannot be thrown out after she files a complaint. the act does not require a survivor of domestic violence to file a complaint herself it can also be filed by a witness of the violence or a well-wisher or the survivor victim behalf.

1. Options to seek help to overcome from the violence, second Resort would be to file a police complain. According to the law the police should treat a domestic violence survivor with sensitivity, then investigating officer decide if the company need to provide a statement or be spoken to for the 

2.  option is to hire a lawyer who can initiate a court case or help with the right information about the legal options available the courts have in the past present to the difference of aggrieved woman.

 In a 2019 case the supreme court said that a complaint of domestic violence may be filed against the husband aur male partner or against his relatives depending on the situation this is important as it gives an unmarried woman in a live-in relationship with the man the same rights as a married woman. 

The Calcutta High Court directed a man to a Wad of compensation of 1lakh rupees to his wife on account of the mental agony caused to her by his conduct, though the complaint and got the court to award the compensation in this case, the court said that the grant of compensation cannot be justified in the absence of evidence. The burden of proof is a big issue in cases of domestic violence in the absence of it the courts may not always be in the woman's favour.

In a 2019 judgement, the supreme court said that a mere allegation of domestic violence is not enough to bring a case under the purview of the domestic violence act

In 2018 the conviction rate for domestic violence cases on the Section 498 a was only 13 % compared to the 50% conviction rate for all IPC cases that year.

If going to the police or Court is to intimidating or expensive, a survivor can approach non-governmental avenues like NGOs, or women helpline for guidance visa venues of a support the survivors by helping them with legal information and offering counselling.

these are some of the resource centres for domestic violence survivors in India,

- national Commission for Women

- guria India 

- the Pranjya Trust

- actionaid India