In contrast to a tradition of commentary which has been negative about the law’s potential to benefit women who experience violence from several cesnturies due to variety of reasons, Domestic violence has always been an instrument of oppression and exploitation against women resulting in the various forms of gender based violence. It occurs in all settings; at work, in the home, in the streets and the community at large, in situations of armed conflict and is perpetrated by men. Ironically women and girls in general experience violence primarily at the hands of men they know and within the so-called ‘safe heaven’ of the home and family. In all of these situations gender power differentials and other inequalities play an important role in the dynamics of violence. Women in Kashmir equally share the sorrows and fortunes of life with women in other parts of world, although the practice of infanticide, foeticide, dowry deaths are not resorted to, women are generally abused and maltreated, subjugated and physically victimized right from their childhood because of the gendered society. Although there are laws (civil & criminal) to tackle the issues of domestic violence but there is always nonchalance to implement them. The present paper examines the legal mechanism to curb domestic violence in Jammu and Kashmir and to come up with the strategies to deal with such violence against women.