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| Hubbies beware, new law in force | | | October 25,NEW DELHI:
Beware husbands! Beating or insulting your wife from Thursday can land you in jail with a fine of up to Rs 20,000.
Coming into effect from Thursday, the Domestic Violence Act 2005 is primarily meant to provide protection to the wife or female live-in partner from violence at the hands of the husband or male live-in partner or his relatives.
Domestic violence under the act includes actual abuse or the threat of abuse whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic, said a statement from the Ministry of Women and Child Development, which issued a notification on Wednesday to bring the Act into force.
Harassment by way of unlawful dowry demands to the woman or her relatives would also be covered under this definition, it said adding the law also extends its protection to women who are sisters, widows or mother.
"We have been trying for long to protect women from domestic violence. In India alone, around 70 per cent of women are victim of these violent acts in one or the other form," Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said.
She said that the law will go a long way to provide relief to the women from domestic violence and get their due.
The ministry has simultaneously issued another notification laying down the rules framed for the implementation of the Act which will provide for, among other things, appointment of protection officers, service providers and counsellors.
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