Combating Domestic Violence amidst Social Isolation and Covid-19

Abstract

This paper explores the situation faced by women in the family atmosphere
during the pandemic-imposed lockdown and the inability on the part of
the State and its machinery to provide access to instant remedies against
domestic violence as envisaged under the Protection of Women from
Domestic Violence (PWDV) Act, 2005. The concept of parens patriae
(parent of people) has proved to be in existence only nominally during
the contingency. Many of the well framed statutory protective mechanisms
including the constitutional machinery of the Judiciary have failed to provide
a helping hand to the tortured women everywhere