Author: Shubhi Vyas

Student of RGNUL, Patiala

India’s the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005[1] is the most successful campaign of the Lawyers Collective Women’s Right Initiative.[2] Since 1988 the Initiative was determined to accomplish the goal of empowering women through law. As a result, they had a major role in the enactment of the Act. This achievement has been recognized as a new era of law making that has been arrived through rigorous and detailed consultative processes directed towards consensus building. The rationale behind bringing forth this Act was to essentially provide with emergency civil protection for female victims of domestic violence. The Act…

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