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Violence against women is present across the world cutting across boundaries of culture, class, education, income, ethnicity and age. It is the most prevalent yet relatively hidden and ignored form of violence. The present descriptive study was conducted to assess the prevalence of domestic violence among married females of Daddu Majra colony, Chandigarh. An Interview schedule was used for data collection validated by ten experts in the field of nursing and sociology. Total 300 females of age group 18-60 are selected by systematic random sampling. House to House survey of every tenth selected house was done and married females were screened for domestic violence through screening Performa, interviewed in their houses as per Interview schedule after taking written consent .Confidentiality of subjects was maintained .Results indicated the overall prevalence of domestic violence was 27.67%. Prevalence of physical violence was 16%, psychological violence was 22.67%, financial violence was 7.67% and sexual violence was 7%.The most common cause found behind domestic violence was alcohol intake by husband. Extramarital affair of husband, not doing household work by women were other common factors. The most common abuser was husband and mother-in-law. Most of the women interviewed were not having any knowledge about women’s right, emergency women helpline number and laws for women. So it is recommended that emphasis should be made on educating the females about their rights, laws for them and helpline during emergency.