Jayita Moulick, Tulishree Pradhan, Pradip Kumar Sarkar, Nilanjan Chakraborty
Marital violence pervades all cultures across all times and was normalized as a right of the husband as a way of chastising the wife for failure to perform her wifely functions. The issue of marital violence is complex as it is often perplexing for many to understand the reason behind the battered women staying back in her abusive marital relationship, this phenomenon of domestic abuse is the most controversial as the right of the State to interfere into the privacy of the marriage is often cited as infringement, and this abuse is also the most under reported as has often been seen in all societies, the burden of protecting the family honour befalls the women and she has been taught to ‘not to wash her dirty linen in public.’ The object of this paper is to reveal of the faulty implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, pertaining to the State of West Bengal. This empirical study will show how the provisions relating to the Service Providers have largely remained unimplemented and how this in turn is affecting the Protection Officers in discharging their duties.