Author: Sanya Malhotra ABSTRACT Usually the term ‘Domestic Violence’ is often subjected or limited to women. Although there’s no harm in it, as women of the society have always been subjected to patriarchy and violence. But the term ‘violence’ or ‘abuse’ cannot be used in a limited context, it has much wider and broader sense of meaning. “Domestic abuse, often known as “domestic violence” or “intimate partner violence,” is defined by the United Nations as a pattern of behaviour designed to establish or retain power and control over an intimate partner in any relationship.” It is astonishing that even men are subjected to physical violence, mental and sexual abuse in many households. About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men, contradicting the widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised, a new report claims. Men assaulted by their partners are often ignored by police, see their attacker go free and have far fewer refuges to