Dowry

A Goa bench of Bombay Court reviewed a peition and gave a historic judgement, saying a daughter has rights on their ancestral property. The court said, even if a daughter is given dowry, she doesn't lose rights on the family property.The court declared that the Plaintiff has an undivided right in the same and permanent injunction restraining the Defendants from transferring or conveying the said property, in the peitition.

One Mohammad Adnan has been arrested for allegedly raping his wife, and assaulting her for dowry, confirmed Lucknow police on July 29. Notably, Adnan and his cousin, raped Adnan's wife, on July 26, when the victim was alone at her maternal's house, and then gave divorce through "triple Talaq".  The victim filed a case, following which Adnan was arrested and efforts to nab the absconding accused is underway. 

Anjali Kanwar from Rajasthan, during her wedding, urged her father that the money put aside for her dowry should be used to build a girls' hostel, according to a storey published by Dainik Bhaskar. Her father identified as Kishore Singh Kanod to this decision and provided Rs 75 lakh for the development. The move was widely praised with a clipping of the news… read-more

A man namely Manoj allegedly hanged his wife Saraswati to death following physically abusing her for dowry in public last month in UP's Tundwal village. The matter came to light when the video of the abuse was widely circulated on August 15. The deceased father gathered courage from watching the video and registered a complaint. The accused will be arrested soon, said police.    

In a very unique divorce appeal to Punjab's Ludhiana police, a man demanded that his wife and in-laws should be booked for cheating as she underwent a physical deformation. Reportedly, after the marriage, the man was unable to identify his bride as a woman. However, the woman has also filed a case of dowry case against the man. Meanwhile, the woman has been sent for a medical examination.