Protection of Women from Domestic Violence - Law & Practice

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Description
Reprint with case-Law Update
With Supreme Court Case-Law on cruelty by husband or his relatives - section 498A IPC
❖ Case law on the Act and allied laws noticed upto August, 2021.
❖ Over 2200 cases referred to in the commentary.
❖ The Act in hand being of recent origin a number of law points not covered by decided cases have been explained by the author with the help of analogous laws.
❖ A separate Chapter on Section 498A, Indian Penal Code, 1860, dealing with cruelty to women by husband and his relatives, provided with maximum number of cases decided by the Supreme Court of India.
❖ Allied Acts, Rules and extracts from relevant Acts given.
❖ An exhaustive Subject Index provided at the end for ease of reference to the law point a reader is in search of.
❖ Cases decided by the Supreme Court dealt with more elaborately. Further, no case of Supreme Court has been left out.
❖ Conflict between cases decided by various High Courts has been specially pointed out.
❖ The author has been a fellow at National Law
University, Jodhpur whereat he pursued his research: Studies and Field Survey on Issue of Gender Sensitivity and Gender Discrimination which enabled him to have an in-depth study of
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Contents
Part I - The Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005
Chapter 1.    Preliminary
Chapter 2.    Domestic Violence
Chapter 3.    Powers and Duties of Protection Officers, Service Providers, etc
Chapter 4.    Procedure for Obtaining Orders of Reliefs
Chapter 5.    Miscellaneous
Part II - Case Law on Cruelty by Husband or his Relatives Section 498A IPC
Part III - Relevant Acts and Rules
part IV - Appendicies
Subject Index
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Author Details
Shri Rajat Baijal was born on 12th September, 1975. Did his B.Sc. in 1997 from University Maharaja's College, Jaipur. He did his LL.M. from Dungar College, Bikaner. He is a University topper in LL.M examination (Comparative Constitutional Law) from Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer. He holds to his distinction a meritorious academic record all throughout his studies in law. With a very rich part-time teaching experience at various law colleges and law coaching institutes at Bikaner. He has been guiding till date hundreds of students to prestigious law positions all across the nation. He has also been a fellow at National Law University, Jodhpur whereat he pursued much of his Research Studies and Field Survey on the issues of Gender Sensitivity and Gender Discrimination with a targeted approach to Gender Sensitive Lawyering. He holds to his professional skills amicable settlement and solutions to many a matrimonial dispute coming up to law courts. The day by day increasing delicacy of the present social fabric leading to a flood-gate of matrimonial litigation right from trial courts up to the apex court being the main driving force with the author to write this book for better concerns of the Bar, the Bench, and the litigants.
Abhishek Wadhwa : BBA. LL. B (Hon.) Adv, Rajasthan High Court
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