Investigating Domestic Violence Against Women in North Bengal: A Gender-Based Violence Study

• Smriti Ghatanijk

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After years of taboo, violence against women is now receiving serious attention in both the media and scholarly circles,
especially in developing nations. This tragic circumstance has also affected India. In India, women make up almost half of the
population. Tragically, 2,44,270 incidents of women being violated have been documented in recent years, with as high as 70% of
those cases being related to domestic abuse. All socioeconomic groups and cultural backgrounds are vulnerable to this kind of silent
violence. Legislators in India have passed many laws aimed at achieving gender equality, like the Domestic Violence Act, 2005,
despite the fact that women continue to face discrimination and injustice in the country even after its independence. With the advent
of gender-specific legislation in the research region, this article seeks to conduct a thorough evaluation of 30 female respondents
from the northern region of West Bengal on factors like the causes of their discrimination, the forms of violence they encounter, the
severity of such violence, and the support they receive from the state's legal system, police, and society at large.

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