IN 1994, Parliament passed the Domestic Violence Act. It took the Government two years to gazette and implement the law because of objections from certain authorities.
They did not want the Act to apply to Muslims because they considered domestic violence a family matter, and felt it should come under the Islamic Family Law at the state level.
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