The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
If an aggrieved person or on her behalf a Protection Officer or a service provider requests the person in charge of a shelter home to provide shelter to her, such person in charge of the shelter home shall provide shelter to the aggrieved person in the shelter home.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/2021/5/A2005-43.pdf, 267,233 bytes, sha256 17ea6d7cb89fcae5...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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