DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNDER INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM

AUTHOR – SHASHANK, Law Student (2023-2028)

Best Citation – SHASHANK, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNDER INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM, ILE JUDICIAL AND LEGAL REVIEW, 1 (1) of 2023, Pg. 92-96, ISBN – 978-81-961120-0-4.

ABSTRACT

It was 25 February 2023, and one of the special days in the life of Vaishali and her partner. But surprisingly, instead of being happy and enjoying the day the 22 year old was sitting by the window of her bedroom, completely silent, contemplating over something and her eyes filled with tears that had been flowing down incessantly since the morning, as had been on various other days. In the morning that day, she was beaten by her husband, whom she married on the same day a year back, over a small quarrel and was abandoned in the room as the man went out with his friends. This does not end here because there are a lot many such vaishalis and even men who are subjected to such a torture by their partners. This leads to the inhumane activity of domestic abuse from which they suffer from and don’t even get the opportunity to speak against.

This article paper deals with the same topic wherein it first unveils what domestic violence actually is, and how does the society looks at this topic. We then move on to the condition in India and study the legislations that have been adopted by the policy-makers in this regard also providing certain issues that make the case worse than the torture of domestic violence. At the end with a point criticism of the legislations, it has been looked that how domestic violence activities have been breaking the gender barrier and affecting the males in the society and how the society and even the law now suppresses their voices in this regard.

KEYWORDS: Domestic violence; intimate partner violence; protection of women against domestic violence act, 2005; violence against men; IPC section 498A