DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Domestic violence involves someone making their partner afraid by abusing them, over time, in order to control them.it can include physical, sexual, emotional, psychological.

TYPES OF DOMESTIC ABUSES

1. Physical Abuse- it includes any sort of violent conduct inflicted on the victim like slapping, biting, hitting, kicking etc it also includes forcing someone to use alcohol, drug and denying someone medical treatment.
2. Sexual Abuse- it happens when the abuser forcefully tries to make physical contact with victim without his/ her consent. This mostly takes form of Marital Rape, Physical violence followed by sex, attacks on the sexual part of the body
3. Emotional Abuse- it happens when the abuser makes or attempts to make the victim financially reliant. It also includes insults, threats of harm, belittling.
4. Non- physical forms of abuse-it can include like social abuse, emotional and psychological abuse, technological abuse, stalking, spiritual abuse.

PUNISHMENT AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSES

1. There are various guidelines being made for protection of women against domestic violence under the statute such as Section 304B of Indian Penal Code relating to dowry death.
2. Under Section 313-316 of Indian Penal Code female infanticide has been made punishable which implies forcefully ending the pregnancy of a women.
3. Other Section of Indian Penal Code dealing with these matters are Section 305-306 related to Abetment of Suicide and 340, 349 of Indian Penal Code respectively wrongful confinement and wrongful restraint.
4. A compliant can also be lodged under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code for Cruelty which also fall under domestic violence.

Personal Safety Survey 2016 (FACT SHEET)

• One in 4 women has experience violence by an intimate partner compared to one in 13 men.
• 92% of women physically assaulted by a male knew the perpetrator – most commonly (41%) a former partner.
• One in 5 women in Australia has experienced sexual violence.
• One in 6 women experienced an episode of stalking since the age of 15.
• Women who experienced physical assault by a male were TWICE as likely as men to have experienced anxiety or fear for their safety.
• Women are nearly 3 TIMES more likely than men to have experience violence by a partner.
• One in two women has experienced sexual harassment during her lifetime.

Conclusion

Domestic violence increases rapidly day by day specially in Lockdown. It is one of the most appalling kinds of harassment endured by the women in our surrounding today and we are not raising our voice against this violence seriously. All the laws are left in the papers only and reality is apart from it. Survey shows that maximum % of victims of domestic violence are female but men are also suffering from this problem. So as a citizen and young generation of India , we have to stand together and make strict laws to protect the victims of domestic violence.