The National Commission for Women registered over 6,900 complaints in the category, ‘Protection of Women from Domestic Violence’, in India in 2022. The Supreme Court has expressed anger and dismay over the dismal handling of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 wherein 4.7 lakh cases are pending across the country. The Act bridged formal law and informal mediation in the process of gender justice by including Protection Officers in the judicial process. Ninety-seven per cent of the 2,193 women participants had faced violence on a daily or weekly basis. They faced economic violence (92%), emotional violence (99%), physical violence (93%), dowry-related violence (65%), forced sexual intercourse (41%), and were threatened with abandonment or divorce (55%), to name a few.

Source: The Telegraph May 04, 2023 11:49 UTC