Domestic Violence has been a deep rooted societal concern and ladies at home have been tormented and tormented by her very own relatives since days of yore. Be that as it may, an uncommon enactment tending to the issue was defined by the Parliament just in the year 2005. The Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (hereinafter alluded to as the Domestic Violence Act) drafted for ladies strengthening and for assurance of ladies against demonstrations of brutality in India came into power in the year 2005. The extent of this bit of enactment has been clarified in plenty of decisions by the High Courts and the Supreme Court in India. For this situation, the Supreme Court with reference to meaning of shared household under Section 2(s) of the Domestic Violence Act expressed that the meaning of 'shared household' in Section 2(s) of the Act isn't in all respects joyfully worded, and has all the earmarks of being the aftereffect of awkward drafting requires to be translated in a reasonable way.