The gender based violence against women is the pervasive social belief system that posits male superiority over women as natural and preferred. There exists a broad based social belief that women are inferior and that it is their role to be subservient to men. Despite various laws enacted in the country to counter the gender based violence and to provide remedial measures to women, the number of crimes against women has been on the increase. The beliefs of male domination and patriarchy pervade so much of our society and its institutions, eradicating violence against women will require changes at the fundamental levels of the society. These changes must eliminate policies and practices perpetuated by the male dominated culture that sexualize women as objects, demean their values, restrict their participation in decision making, dehumanizing them with labels, control their rights over their own bodies and marginalize and demean their presence. This study has been conducted in the city of Tiruchirapalli where the domestic violence against women are in the increasing trend. The study focused mainly on the physical violence meted out to women.