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For the purposes of this Act, any ac~ omission or commission or cooduct of D,Oo'U.o or the respondent shall constitute dome"'c violence In case it - dom"'w';0. l<ou. (a) harms or injures or endangers the health, safety,life,llmh or well.heing, whether menta! or physica!, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and iocludes causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and economic abuse; or (b) harssses, harms, Injures or endangers the aggrieved person with a view to coerce her or any other persoo related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any dowry or other property or valuable security; or . . (c) has the effect of threatening the aggrieved person or any person related to her by any conduct mentioned in clause (a) or clause (b); or (d) otherwise injures or causes harm, whether physical or mental, to the aggr,.ed person, Exp!".nation I.-For the purpo", of this sectioo,- (» "physicai abuse" means any act or conduct which is of such a nature as to cause bodily pain, harm. or danger to life, limb, or health or impair the health or development of the aggrieved person and includes assaul~ criminal intimidation and criminal foree; (h) "sexua! abuse" include, any conduct of a sexual nature that abnses, humiliates, degrades or otherwise violates the dignity of woman; (iil) "verbal and emotional ahuse" Includes- (a) insults, ridicule, hurniliatiou, name calling and insults or ridicule specially with regard to not having a child or a male child; and (b) repeated threats to cause physical pain to any person in whom the aggricved person is inte"'ted. (Iv) "economic abuse" Includes- (a) deprivation ofall or any economic or financial resources to which the aggrieved person is entitled under any law or custom whether payable under an order ofa court or otherwise or which the aggrieved person requires out of necessity including, but not limited to, household necessities for the aggrieved person and her children, if any, srr/d".., property, jointly or separately owned hy the aggrieved person, payment of rental related to the shared household and maintenance; (b) disposal of household effects, any alieoation of assets whether movable or immovable, valuables, shares, securities, bonds and the like or other property in which the aggrieved person has an interest or is entitled to use by virtue of the domestic relationship or which may be reasonably required by the aggrieved person or her children or her srr/dh"" or any other property jointly or separately beld by the aggrieved person; and (c) prohibition or restriction to continued access to resources or facilities which the aggrieved person is entitled to use or enjoy by virtue of the domestic relationship including access to the shared household. Explanation Il.-For the purpose of determioing whether any ac~ omission, commission or conduct of the respondeot con"itu... "domestic violence" under this section, the overall facts and circumstances of the case shall be taken into consideration. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY (p n- CHAPTER III Pow", ANDOUT'"0' PROTECTION Omc"" s,"v'a PROVID"',ETC. I.r"m"'"