SC Has Given A Historic Verdict In Favor Of Women
SC has given a historic verdict in favor of women.SC extends the wide scope of the law against domestic violence to women. The SC has given a historic verdict in favor of women.
Under this, now the victim of domestic violence will have the right to live in the house of any relative of the husband, including the mother-in-law.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan has expanded the scope of Section-2 (s) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, which defines a husband’s common house.
According to this, the woman removed from the house after the violence will no longer have to wander. She will be able to live in a husband’s shared house, which was not possible before.
This law was enacted to protect women from domestic violence in the year 2005 to prevent family violence with women. It protects the wife, mother, sister, daughter, domestic female relatives from physical, mental, sexual, and harassment.
In this, injury to any woman’s health, safety, body parts in domestic relationships come under the category of crime. Dowry, soliciting property and harassment by father, husband, brother, sister-in-law, father-in-law, father-in-law living in the same house have also been considered as crimes.
Along with this, hindering domestic work, not giving money to children and women, and taking away her property from the woman also comes under the purview of domestic violence.
In 2013, 1,18,866 cases of domestic violence were reported, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. These incidents increased by 11.6 percent in 2013 compared to 2012.
Apart from this, in the year 2018, the highest number of cases were reported under domestic violence, in which the husband or other relatives of women were involved. During this period, about 27.6 percent of cases of physical harm were reported to women.
Most women in our country indulge in some form of domestic violence, which sometimes results in murder. One of the main reasons for the rise of these incidents is that women are not aware of this law.
When a girl leaves her parents’ house and comes to her in-laws for marriage, she becomes her home forever.
In such a situation, committing violence to women, forcing them out of the house is no manhood. In the absence of information, those women also continue to suffer the behavior happening with them.
The person who has to bear the violence is also believed to be equally guilty.
Overall, the Supreme Court has expanded the scope of the law against domestic violence, giving women higher rights, which is welcome. In such a situation, women need to be aware of, not to be afraid anymore.
