Domestic Violence Against Women in India Have you read today’s news paper ? Hasn’t there any news related to the crime of domestic violence reported in that? Nowdays whenever we open the newspaper there are a lots of domestic violence cases against women reported . It is a very serious issue not only in India but also to the world . According to the data published by WHO , 1 in 3 women across the world have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non partner sexual violence in their life time . Whereas in India , according to the NCRB data during 2019 , out of 4.05 lakh crimes against women , more than 30 percent were of the domestic violence . Firstly it is better to understand what the Domestic Violence is ? It has been defined in very well and wide manner in Section 3 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, that any act or omission done by the respondent which harms, injures, threatens or abuse physically, sexually, verbally
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