The document outlines the legal rights of women in India under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDV) of 2005. It defines domestic violence as physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, and economic abuse. It notes that women experiencing domestic violence can seek protection orders, residence orders, monetary relief, custody orders, or compensation by filing a Domestic Incident Report with the local protection officer or directly with the magistrate. The perpetrator can be prosecuted throughout India under orders from this Act.

2. National Commission for Women
Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource PersonResource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru PrasadProfessor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM,
APSET. ICFAI TMF, (PhD) at JNTU
Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies,
VVIT.
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puttuvvit@gmail.com

4. • Physical violence
• Beating,
• Slapping,
• Hitting,
• Biting,
• Kicking,
• Punching,
• Pushing,
• Shoving, or • Causing bodily pain or injury in any
other manner.

5.  Insults •Name calling •Accusations on
your character or conduct etc. •Insult for
not having a male child, •Insult for not
bringing dowry etc. •Yelling and
Screaming •Preventing you or the child in
your custody from attending school,
college or any other educational
institutions

6. •Preventing you from taking up a job,
•Forcing you to leave your job,
•Preventing you or a child in your
custody from leaving the house,
•Preventing you from meeting any
person in the normal course of
events,

7. Forcing you to get married when you
do not want to marry,
Preventing you from marrying a person
of your choice,
Forcing you to marry a particular
person of his/their choice,
Threat to commit suicide,
Any other verbal or emotional abuse.

8. •Not providing you money for maintaining you or
your children,
•Not providing food, clothes, medicines etc. for you
and your children,
•Stopping you from carrying on your employment or,
•Disturbing you in carrying on your employment,
•Not allowing you to take up an employment or,
•Taking away your income , salary, wages etc.,

9. •Not allowing you to use your salary,
wages etc.,
•Forcing you out of the house you live in,
•Stopping you from accessing or using any
part of the house,
•Not allowing use of clothes, articles or
things of general household use,
•Not paying rent if staying a rented
accommodation etc.

10. • Forces you to look at pornography or any
other obscene pictures or material,
• Any act of sexual nature to abuse,
humiliate or degrade you, or which is
otherwise violative of your dignity or any
other unwelcome conduct of sexual
nature,
• Child sexual abuse,
• Forced sexual intercourse.

11. • Every woman (aggrieved person)
or a child who is, or has been, in
a domestic relationship with the
perpetrator (respondent) of
domestic violence can take the
help of PWDV Act, 2005.

12. •Raise your voice. • Talk to your friends and
relatives about it. • Take the help of a NGO
or police. • File an FIR (First Information
Report) in the nearest police station. • Take
the help of ‘The Protection of Women from
Domestic Violence Act’, 2005 (PWDV Act,
2005) and contact the Protection Officer of
your area and register D.I.R (Domestic
Incident Report). • You can also directly go to
the Magistrate.

13.  Under the PWDV Act, 2005, you can get
the following reliefs/orders: 1. Protection
(from any act of domestic violence) order
2. Residence orders - right to reside 3.
Monetary reliefs 4. Custody orders 5.
Compensation orders 6. Interim and ex-
parte orders NOTE: Any order made
under this Act is enforceable throughout
India.

15.  You can file case in the court of Judicial
Magistrate of the first class or the Metropolitan
Magistrate within the local limits of the area
where: • You, permanently or temporarily
resides or carry on business or employed; or •
Where the perpetrator permanently or
temporarily resides or carry on business or
employed; or • The cause of action had taken
place.

16. National Commission for Women
Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women
Resource PersonResource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru PrasadProfessor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET.
ICFAI TMF, (PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36