Domestic violence act 2005

Maitri J -92 Anant Ram Diary,RK Puram Sector 13

New Delhi 110066, India www.maitriindia.org email:winnie.singh@gmail.com

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• Insults • Name calling • Accusations on your character or conduct etc. • Insult for not having a male child, • Insult for not bringing dowry etc. • Yelling and Screaming • Preventing you or the child in your custody from attending school, college or any other educational institutions

Verbal and Emotional Violence

Contd:

• Not providing you money for maintaining you or your children, •  Not providing food, clothes, medicines etc. for you and your children, • Stopping you from carrying on your employment or, • Disturbing you in carrying on your employment, • Not allowing you to take up an employment or, • Taking away your income , salary, wages etc., • Not allowing you to use your salary, wages etc., • Forcing you out of the house you live in, • Stopping you from accessing or using any part of the house, • Not allowing use of clothes, articles or things of general household use, • Not paying rent if staying a rented accommodation etc.

Economic Violence

• Raise your voice. • Talk to your friends and relatives about it. • Take the help of a NGO or police. • File an FIR (First Information Report) in the nearest police station. • Take the help of ‘The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act’, 2005 (PWDV Act, 2005) and contact the Protection Officer of your area and register D.I.R (Domestic Incident Report). • You can also directly go to the Magistrate.

Under the PWDV Act, 2005, you can get the following reliefs/orders: 1. Protection (from any act of domestic violence) order 2. Residence orders - right to reside 3. Monetary reliefs 4. Custody orders 5. Compensation orders 6. Interim and ex-parte orders

NOTE: Any order made under this Act is enforceable throughout India.