Let's Discuss - Domestic Violence Against Women in India | Advocate Afreen Hossain

Описание: According to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), nearly 1 in 3 Indian women age 18-49 have suffered some form of spousal abuse, and around 6% have suffered sexual violence.
The NFHS-5 survey (2019-21) was conducted in around 6.37 lakh sample households in 707 districts in 28 states and eight Union Territories in India, covering 7,24,115 women and 1,01,839 men to provide dis-aggregated estimates up to district level.

In India, more than 55% of the women suffer from domestic violence, especially in the states of U.P., M.P. and other Northern states. According to United Nation Population Fund Report, around 2/3rd of the married Indian women are victims of domestic violence attacks. However, most of the women prefer staying with her husband and tolerating the abuse in the interest of their children. While few others resist from filing the case as they do not want to get involved in long legal proceedings either due to financial disability or because of the fear of undergoing public shame and scrutiny. As a result, most of the cases of domestic violence go unreported.

However, it is very important to raise your voice against this gruesome act of the husband or his relatives rather than quietly enduring it. The offence of domestic violence is covered by both- section 498a of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and by the Domestic Violence Act, 2005. However, both these provisions treat only the women as the victim and not the man in a relationship, hence, only woman can seek relief through it, which is of course a big drawback and acts as a loophole, about which I shall be talking in one of my next videos.

Before we delve into how you can file a domestic violence case in India, let’s understand what is domestic violence.

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