“Violence against women continues unabated in our country, both inside and outside the home, despite the legal safeguards provided for women. Women are often terrorised so that they do not assert their rights. Violence against women manifests itself as rape, molestation, stripping, eve-teasing, kidnapping, domestic violence including wife battering, dowry harassment and dowry death, etc. Cruelty to women driving them to commit suicide or other forms of murder ...