1. Maitri
J -92 Anant Ram Diary,RK Puram Sector 13
New Delhi 110066, India
www.maitriindia.org email:winnie.singh@gmail.com
Helpline: +919810132908
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4. •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
Verbal and Emotional Violence
6. •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.,
•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.
Economic Violence
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11. •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.
12. 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.