• The Act seeks to cover those women who are or were in a relationship with the abuser in which both the parties have lived collectively in a shared household and are related by means of consanguinity, marriage or a relationship inside the nature of marriage, or adoption; similarly dating with own family individuals living collectively as a joint own family also are included. Even the ones girls who're sisters, widows, mothers, single ladies, or residing with them are entitled to get felony protection underneath the proposed Act.
• "Domestic violence" includes actual abuse or the risk of abuse that is bodily, sexual, verbal, emotional and economic. Harassment