“If there is love, affection and trust in the family then Act and law will not be needed,” said District Principal and Sessions Judge Prakash Ballari.

District Legal Service Authority, Bar Association, Information Department and Women and Child Welfare Department had collaboratively organised a seminar on ‘Prevention of domestic violence against women Act’ recently in the court premises.

Addressing the inaugural programme, Mr Ballari said that in a quest of aping western culture, the affection between some of the most beautiful relations such as brother-sister, parent-child, man-women relation etc is gradually being lost, thereby bringing in violence, drift in the relations and other family problems.

“Unemployment, do-wry and such social evils are the reasons for domestic violenceand people must resolve to fights against such evils”, he added.

Earlier inaugurating the programme, Superintendent of Police Vipul Kumar said that though women of our country have been given a very high place in our culture, it is unfortunate that they are being victimised at the domestic level.

With the aim of preventing such domestic violence against women, Government brought the prevention of domestic violence against women Act in 2005.

The programme was presided over by Bar Association president T M Krishnamurthy who said that the increase in domestic violence rate is the only indication that people are drifting away from their culture. Advocate B M Lakshman Gowda and D S Mamatha spoke about the act and the highlights. Various women organisations participated in the seminar.