New Delhi: The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the states appointing revenue officers and district collectors as security officers in cases of domestic violence. In fact, under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, women can approach these officers during crisis. The Supreme Court directed the Center to provide details of the number of pending cases, complaints lodged, funding pattern and eligibility criteria for security officers.

Along with this also asked to find out how effective the 17 year journey of this law has been. While ordering the Center to provide this information within four weeks, the bench said that there are huge laws made in the country, for which there is hardly any mechanism to know the effectiveness at the ground level. A bench of Justice UU Lalit, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice PS Narasimha said, 'It is one thing to enact a beautiful, grand law, but a mechanism has to be devised to know its effect on the ground.'

The court made this observation during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by an NGO named We The Women of India. It was alleged in the petition that the security officers provided under the Act are not sufficient. Advocate Shobha Gupta, appearing for the NGO, told the court that even though she has been appointed, there is hardly any information about her contact for protection, compensation and other relief under the Act for the victims of domestic violence. .

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