Bringing rights home: Review of the campaign for a law on domestic violence

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 50-57

  Jaising, Indira ^a  

^a Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative ^*  (India)

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References (15)

1. Preamble to the Act.
2. AIR 1984 Del 66.
3. (2007) I DMC 1 (SC).
4. Section 2(s).
5. See the discussion on the concept of "residence" in Jeewanti Pandey vs Kishan Chandra Pandey, (1981) 4 SCC 517.
6. The proceedings of the colloquium was subsequently published as Domestic Violence and Law: Report of Colloquium on Justice for Women - Empowerment through Law.
7. Proviso to Section 19(1).
8. Although, such a right has been developed through case law. See, B P Achala Anand vs Appi Reddy, (2005) 3 SCC 313.
9. While the minor female child can be argued to be an "aggrieved person" herself, the position of the minor male child under the PWDVA is still ambiguous, owing to this deletion.
10. Aruna Pramod Shah vs Union of India, Writ Petition (Crl) 425/2008 (Unreported case, on file with Lawyers Collective).
11. I (2008) DMC 1.
12. MANU/TN/0525/2008.
13. MANU/TN/0612/2008.
14. OA No 764 of 2007 in CS No 548 of 2007 (Unreported case, copy on file with Lawyers Collective).
15. Smt Shumita Didi Sandhu vs Mr Sanjay Singh Sandhu and Ors MANU/DE/8160/2007.