I have observed the following,
1. Persisting denial of food,
2. Insisting on perverse sexual conduct
3. Constantly locking a woman out of the house.
4. Denying the woman access to children, thereby causing mental torture.
5. Physical violence.
6. Taunting, demoralising and putting down the woman with the intention of causing mental torture.
7. Abusing children in their mother’s presence with the intention of causing her mental torture.
8. Mental abuse (threaten to harm, stopping from jobs, force to marry whom she doesn’t like).
9. Threatening divorce unless dowry is given.