Domestic violence act makes a dent: Special court allows second wife to retain house

posted by   vidya (120)   16 months ago (mynation.wordpress.com)

Lucknow, July 5: Lucknow’s Shashi Sharma finally got the right to stay in her house and her husband was stopped from selling it off, thanks to the decision of a special court.The judgment from the special court, formed in April to hear cases under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (PWDV) Act, is hailed as significant by the city’s activists.    The decision in Shashi’s case came on June 30 from magistrate Ankita Shukla. Suraksha, a social organisation working on the issue, filed the case on behalf of Shashi.

Shashi (45), a re