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Dowry gazette - June 13, 2009

June 13, 2009 posted by indiatime |

Greater Noida, June 12, 2009:
Bharati (4) and Priyanshi (2) were axed to death by their father Yogesh Sharma when their mother failed to bring in the dowry money from her father. Sharma was caught while disposing the daughters’ bodies in a gutter.

Bokaro, June 11, 2009:
Rizwana Praveen (22) was beaten to death by husband and his family, after her father failed to come up with a motorbike in dowry.

Mumbai, June 11, 2009:
Reshma Shaikh (26) killed herself by consuming poison, tired of the constant dowry demands by husband and his family. Husband Amjad had been harassing her because her father wound’t transfer his business in Amjad’s name.

Rajkot, June 11, 2009:
Four married women from four different families attempted suicide, tired of the dowry demands made by their husbands. Hetal Dudakia (26) and Santok Vasant (28) died after consuming poison. Bhavana Dhankecha (27) hanged herself to death to free herself of the dowry harassment. Namrata, the 4th woman, has however survived the attempt.

Varanasi, June 10, 2009:
Tortured by her husband for dowry, Rekhadevi, a local woman, committed suicide by hanging.

New Delhi, June 5, 2009:
India’s Supreme Court set aside the dowry death conviction of one Suresh Kumar whose wife Asha Devi had died of severe burn injuries. The court basically ruled that dowry cannot be a factor if the harassment issue is more than one year old.

Bhopal, June 5, 2009:
A 45-year woman who had pressed charges against her in-laws, was brought to a police station and gang-raped by cops at the Amla police station.

Noida, June 5, 2009:
Arati (24), suffering from extensive burn injuries, trying to lodge a dowry complaint against her husband, was turned away by the police who told her to ‘come back tomorrow’.

Ludhiana, June 5, 2009:
Sukhpal Kaur (32) was poisoned to death by husband and his family when she didn’t cave in to their dowry demands.

Gurgaon, June 2:
Tapasya (28) was found hanging in her apartment in the city of Gurgaon. Although initially suspected to be a suicide, the police have now arrested husband Rajiv Singh for Tapasya’s murder, qualifying the murder to be a dowry death.

Lucknow, June 1:
The bride’s brother threw acid on the groom’s face when the groom demanded a dowry of Rs 10000 minutes before the marriage ceremony was to begin. Sanjay Yadav, the accused, escaped after the acid attack. Ramesh, the groom, has been hospitalized and is in critical condition.


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  1. MVP on June 13, 2009 9:14 pm

    India’s supreme court is stupid for not prosecuting sureshkumar just because the case is one year old. In USA cases come back even after decades. It is sickning to have incompetant police system and the courts ,and I am sure many cases do not make to the court or police statements because officials are paid off in many instances. All those responsible for dowry deaths should be hanged.

  2. Vinoy on June 13, 2009 9:51 pm

    Even a high court judge was once reported to have been harassing his daughter-in-law for dowry!This is perhaps the most wretched society in the world.And we still raise the slogan-MERA BHARAT MAHAN!To hell with this mahan Bharat!

  3. harini calamur on June 14, 2009 12:10 am

    chilling to the core. made more chilling by your matter of fact recounting of the cases. am sharing this across FB & twitter !

  4. stunned on June 14, 2009 3:51 am

    i am stunned. not that we dont read such dowry reports every day, but it seems that there is a dowry death going on somewhere as we speak or write about it. just the other day i read about india’s women being in charge and all.

  5. badri on June 14, 2009 4:31 am

    I wonder why women in distress are unable to find local women’s support groups etc. I am also surprised at the lack of support from women’s own families such as parents or sisters and brothers who somehow seem to abandon these women once they are ‘married off’.

    BTW, I do like the way you have presented these cases.

  6. juliet on July 17, 2009 4:44 pm

    it is an utter shame there is so much violence still there are groups coming out in favour of men and want to abolish 498a and domestic violence act. If it is not violence at home, it is outside openly people pick up females the younger the better in cars with black windows gang rape and throw them out. Have we become a roll of toilet paper? I think all the bride burning culprits should be burnt in a similar fashion, the rapists’ should be chopped off then only crime will reduce. I also request the women in power to come forward and help us as quickly also be more approachable to the common women, listen to their problems, get justice for them.

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