Human rights are derived from the dignity and worth inherent in the human person. The human rights of women are an inalienable, integral, and indivisible part of universal human rights. In spite of that, the oppression borne by women throughout the world is virtually intolerable. The time has come to look after the women with dignity and respect. The Domestic Violence Act aims to remove gender discrimination.
Shri Sen Gupta has spared no pains to explain the laws laid down by Parliament so that women no more become the victims of the social conditions still prevailing in the country. The treatise on the subject will be useful to all concerned. The readers will get the views expressed by different High Courts and Supreme Court on different controversial questions. In addition, the author has expressed his own views which are still res integra.