Monetary relief under Section 20 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is…

Section 20(1) covers violence-caused expenses and losses of the aggrieved person and her child. It does not require her to satisfy a fresh dowry demand or pay the State's prosecution costs. Return of her property can also be ordered under Section 19(8); financial loss caused by economic abuse is not excluded merely because the property was stridhan.