HC to Bihar: Enforce 'Domestic Violence Act'
Patna High Court has directed the NDA government in Bihar to initiate steps to enforce the Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
By PTI |
PATNA: Patna High Court has directed the NDA government in Bihar to initiate steps to enforce the Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha and Justice K K Mandal passed the order after hearing a public interest petition by senior advocate Shruti Singh on Wednesday.
Singh had complained that the delay in appointment of protection officers, creation of safe shelters, recording of incidents of domestic violence in prescribed format as also lack of awareness on the provisions of the Act were coming in the way of women who seek safety under the Act.
The state government had not framed the rules for effective implementation of the Act, he alleged.
The court further directed the state to appoint protection officers and service providers in every district of Bihar by November 30.
It ordered the state to make available one 'safe shelter' in each district for women affected by domestic violence, besides arranging programmes to train the police officers to handle the cases relating to domestic violence.
The Act came into force on October 26, 2006 with the objective to protect women from domestic violence such as abuse or threat of abuse, harassment of any nature like physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and economic.
Appearing on behalf of the Department for Woman and Child Development, Centre, its counsel Sanjay Kuamr reasoned that the state governments must take immediate steps for implementing the Act to check incidents of domestic violence.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha and Justice K K Mandal passed the order after hearing a public interest petition by senior advocate Shruti Singh on Wednesday.
Singh had complained that the delay in appointment of protection officers, creation of safe shelters, recording of incidents of domestic violence in prescribed format as also lack of awareness on the provisions of the Act were coming in the way of women who seek safety under the Act.
The state government had not framed the rules for effective implementation of the Act, he alleged.
The court further directed the state to appoint protection officers and service providers in every district of Bihar by November 30.
It ordered the state to make available one 'safe shelter' in each district for women affected by domestic violence, besides arranging programmes to train the police officers to handle the cases relating to domestic violence.
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The Act came into force on October 26, 2006 with the objective to protect women from domestic violence such as abuse or threat of abuse, harassment of any nature like physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and economic.
Appearing on behalf of the Department for Woman and Child Development, Centre, its counsel Sanjay Kuamr reasoned that the state governments must take immediate steps for implementing the Act to check incidents of domestic violence.
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