• Dr. Gulfisha
• Dr. Shah Mohd. Khan

Abstract Since the last two decades, developed nations have been discussing and exploring stalking and its detrimental effect on the life of victim. But despite getting a higher rate of violence against women, stalking is still a less studied phenomenon in India. Very few cases have been reported and published in newspapers that drew very little attention about its seriousness. However, the victim has to experience serious loss at the mental, social and financial level. Researches revealed that most of the sexual crimes or murders against women have been followed by stalking. Therefore, if stalking is prevented at the initial stage, the rate of violence against women can also be reduced. Ample of researches and government data is available describing the seriousness of violence against women, but there is a lamentable dearth of researches regarding stalking and its effect in Indian context. Therefore present research, work theoretical in nature, is an attempt to describe the nature and severity of stalking in the life of female victim by providing some cases published in print media. This will be further helpful to eliminate misconceptions and confusion about and brought the challenges of stalking into the light. Also, it is intended to draw the attention to social scientists, policymakers, legal and health professionals who deal with the stalking cases to prepare an adequate mechanism to curb the occurrence of stalking and to decline the incidence of violence against women.

Keywords: violence against women, stalking, effect of stalking, victims’ life

"STALKING: AN UNEXPLORED FORM OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no.2387-2396, October-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2010309.pdf

"STALKING: AN UNEXPLORED FORM OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no. pp2387-2396, October-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2010309.pdf