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The law under these papers has moved. The Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Evidence Act were replaced by the BNS, BNSS and BSA on 1 July 2024; adultery (section 497) was struck down on 27 September 2018 and is not in the BNS. The Maternity Benefit Act, the Factories Act and the Equal Remuneration Act were repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Code on Social Security, the OSH Code and the Code on Wages. The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 gave way to the 2006 Act on 1 November 2007, and the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 to the 2015 Act on 15 January 2016. Each answer gives the law the paper asked about and the law that applies now.
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Q.1
Q.1: Write in one or two sentences, any six
12 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What is Domestic Violence?[2]
Answer
The definition. Domestic violence is defined in section 3 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Any act, omission or conduct of the respondent is domestic violence if it:
- "harms or injures or endangers the health, safety, life, limb or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the aggrieved person", including physical, sexual, verbal and emotional, and economic abuse;
- harasses her to coerce her or her relatives "to meet any unlawful demand for any dowry or other property";
- threatens her or her relatives with such conduct; or
- otherwise injures or harms her, physically or mentally.
The four kinds of abuse (Explanation I).
- Physical: acts causing bodily pain or harm, including assault and criminal force.
- Sexual: conduct of a sexual nature that "abuses, humiliates, degrades or otherwise violates the dignity of woman".
- Verbal and emotional: insults, ridicule and name-calling, especially about "not having a child or a male child", and repeated threats.
- Economic: depriving her of money or resources she is entitled to, or disposing of her property or stridhan. It includes cutting off her access to the shared household.
Who is protected. A woman in a "domestic relationship" with the respondent, living or having lived in a shared household. She may be a wife, a partner in a relationship in the nature of marriage, a mother, sister or daughter.
Case. In Hiral P. Harsora v. Kusum Narottamdas Harsora, AIR 2016 SC 4774, the Supreme Court struck down the words "adult male" in section 2(q). So domestic violence by a woman relative is also covered.
Conclusion. Domestic violence means physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic abuse of a woman, or dowry harassment, by a person in a domestic relationship with her.
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