शनिवार, 17 मई 2008

Maharashtra Profile on Crime Against Women: DOWRY

Dowry can be treated as a stigma on the Indian society. A girl leaves her parental house around the age of 20 years and accepts the matrimonial house as her home where she would spend the rest of life. Her well-being, sense of security, confidence and empowerment, everything depends on the treatment that she gets during the initial period immediately after the marriage. The menace of dowry torture increased so much during the last twenty years that now it has become a threat to the sense of well-being of the newly married girl. After a large number of cases of dowry torture and dowry deaths came to be reported, the Dowry Prohibition Act which was passed by the government of India in _____ year was modified and made further stringent. Now there is a provision that if any girl dies within the first seven years of marriage, then it shall be presumed that there was an element of dowry harassment and torture.

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