Wife of bureaucrat reports domestic violence, lauds WPL

Domestic violence isn’t confined to the uneducated alone. Women from educated families too often undergo the trauma within four walls of the house.

A similar case of domestic violence came to fore during a programme hosted by an NGO at a city hotel on Tuesday. Wife of a senior serving bureaucrat narrated her experience of domestic violence before the gathering and shared how the intervention by 1090 women Powerline (WPL) came as a relief to her.

The woman told that after the team of Women Powerline intervened in her case, the beatings by her husband had stopped, but his brutal behaviour hadn’t. “She told that he still gets angry. But, due to fear of Powerline, he stops himself from going further and repeating the acts that he had been doing for long,” said Babita Singh, Deputy SP WPL.

When the woman stood up to share her experiences, it left the audience shocked as no one could imagine that a bureaucrat could also stoop to such levels, said Singh.

Singh told that when the woman approached the WPL for help, a team did a telephonic conversation with the man, not knowing that he was a senior bureaucrat posted in east UP. The team warned him of stern action if he continued with his violent behaviour at home and a complaint from the wife was repeated.

Another woman from a Kushinagar village shared similar experience of getting a relief from domestic violence from husband after the intervention of WPL.

Vandana Mishra, programme manager from the NGO that organised the programme said that the consultation was a follow-up meeting on safe and secure education. A manual in collaboration with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has been designed and provided to all Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya. Some teachers too shared their experiences of working on the project during the programme.