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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
by:
Winnie Singh
Executive Director, Maitri

2. MAITRI is committed to facilitate Citizenship Rights, Human
Rights of the vulnerable, Dignity and Respect to the abandoned,
Destitute and elderly widows in Vrindavan
Maitri is committed to End Violence Against Women. Maitri’s aim
is to reduce domestic violence against women, and promote
happy and healthy homes
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3. Understanding
Domestic Violence
Any form of abuse causing harm or injury to the physical
and/or mental health of the woman or compromising her life
and safety.
Any Harassment for dowry or to meet any other unlawful
demand
Threat to cause injury or harm
Forms of Domestic Violence
1. Physical Abuse
2. Sexual Abuse
3. Verbal Abuse
4. Psychological/ Emotional Abuse
4. Economic Abuse

4. Abusive Behaviour Chart
Power and Control
Wheel
Cycle of Violence

5. Myths About Domestic Violence
Myth 1 Men who abuse their
partners are uneducated, socially
inept and outwardly aggressive
Myth 2 Women often provoke
violence
Myth 3 Alcohol and drug abuse
cause abusive behavior
Myth 4 Men abuse their female
partners because they are
mentally ill
Myth 5 Women who stay in
abusive relationships are crazy;
they must enjoy being abused,
otherwise they would leave

6. RISK FACTORS
• Isolation from family and support systems
• Witness to violence during childhood/at the
field
• Prior history of violence within the family
• Financial dependency
• Incompatibility (change in the outlook)
• Alcoholism
• Mismatch of career options
• Role expectations
• The anxieties about control, and consequently
the violence, flare up most before and after
deployments, as soldiers lose and then try to
reinstate control.

7. Challenges
-Women often hesitate to
report abuse because
they fear the impact it
will have on their family
life
-Many women still don't
know that the law gives
financial and physical
protection as well as a
right to live in her marital
home her under the
domestic violence act
2005

8. Dealing with Domestic Violence
• Identification: Victim has to identify herself
• Accessing help through forums, support groups, help
lines
• Talking to trusted families and friends
• Taking the help of a NGO or police
• Protecting their rights by using the
“Protection of Women from
Domestic Violence Act, 2005”.

9. Impact of Domestic Violence
• Overall health of the woman and the family
• Aggression impacting children’s mental health
• Abusive and violent home can give children
wrong messaging ‘that it is OK to be abusive-
For Boys’ and ‘it is ok to accept abuse- for
girls’

10. PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT, 2005
• Section 14: Counseling
• Section 18: Protection Orders
• Section 19: Residence Orders
• Section 20: Monetary Relief
• Section 21: Custody Order
• Section 22: Compensation Order
• Section 23: Interim/ Ex parte Orders
• Section 31: Penalty for breach of protection order by
respondent

11. IPC 498 A
Passed by Indian Parliament in 1983, Indian
Penal Code 498A, is a criminal law (not a
civil law) which is defined as follows,
“Whoever, being the husband or the relative
of the husband of a woman, subjects such
woman to cruelty shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend
to three years and shall also be liable to fine.
The offence is Cognizable, non-
compoundable and non-bailable.”
• IPC 498A was introduced to save women
from harassment.

12. For more information, please contact:
Maitri India
J -92 Anant Ram Diary
RK Puram Sector 13
New Delhi 110066, India
www.maitriindia.org
email: winnie.singh@maitri.org.in
24 hour Helpline: 8010512345/ +91.9810132908