{"id":228945,"date":"2023-02-27T19:32:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228945"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:02:40","slug":"supreme-court-intrigued-by-the-lack-of-protection-officers-for-domestic-violence-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-intrigued-by-the-lack-of-protection-officers-for-domestic-violence-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court intrigued by the lack of \u2018protection officers\u2019 for domestic violence cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cSupreme Court intrigued by the lack of \u2018protection officers\u2019 for domestic violence cases\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu<\/b> on<b> 27th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has sought more information about Mission Shakti because it is concerned about a persistent lack of protection officers to handle domestic violence cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4.4 lakh cases of domestic violence are pending in 801 districts, a protection officer in each of these districts would be saddled with over 500 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Mission Shakti?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-of-women-and-child-development-issues-detailed-guidelines-for-mission-shakti-aimed-at-strengthening-interventions-for-women-safety-security-and-empowerment\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are protection officers?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appointment of protection officers (ideally women) is mandated under Section 8 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These officers have a pivotal role: Help victims file complaints, Give Information to the police, provide immediate protection and support, Inform victims about their legal rights and Support them through the court proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What has the Supreme Court asked the government?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Shakti provides \u201cone-stop centers\u201d in most of the districts to receive domestic violence victims. But it is unclear how many of them employ protection officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, the Supreme Court has asked the government about whether Mission Shakti will serve as an umbrella scheme for implementing the Domestic Violence Act as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it is concerned about a persistent lack of protection officers to handle domestic violence cases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSupreme Court intrigued by the lack of \u2018protection officers\u2019 for domestic violence cases\u201d published in The Hindu on 27th February 2023 What is the News? The Supreme Court has sought more information about Mission Shakti because it is concerned about a persistent lack of protection officers to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-intrigued-by-the-lack-of-protection-officers-for-domestic-violence-cases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court intrigued by the lack of \u2018protection officers\u2019 for domestic violence cases<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-228945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}