Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, domestic violence may consist of:

Section 3 says "any act, omission or commission or conduct of the respondent" amounts to domestic violence if it harms or endangers the aggrieved person, harasses her for dowry, threatens her, or otherwise injures or causes her harm, whether physical or mental. Assault, dowry harassment and threats are each included, but none of them is the whole of it.