Nadia: A girl was forced to return to her parents' house a day after she was married for refusing to pay extra dowry at a village in West Bengal's Nadia district. Samir De, the husband, and his father were arrested from their house at Nashrapara village following a police complaint lodged by the girl, a day after the incident took place on Friday, and were produced in court on Sunday....
04:49 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: A 27-year-old woman in the capital was pushed to her death by her husband and in-laws from the roof of the building in which they live. The trio have been arrested, police said on Saturday. Farzana, the mother of a three-month-old baby, was pushed from her in-laws' house at Lahori Gate, situated in Delhi's walled city area, around 9:30 pm on Friday. "The victim's husband Javed (28) and...
10:38 PM, May 05, 2012
Rewari: A court on Thursday sentenced a man and his mother to life imprisonment for allegedly killling his wife for dowry two years ago. Ajay Tewatia, Additional Sessions Judge sentenced the victim Sanju's husband Sushil Kumar and her mother-in-law Santosh Devi to life imprisonment. Manoj Kumar, Sushil's elder brother and a co-accused in the case, had died during the course of trial. According to the prosecution, Sanju, daughter of Kailash...
11:35 PM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: One phone call could have saved 29-year-old Madhu Yadavs life. That call was never made. On Monday night, the marketing professional with a leading media house was murdered by her in-laws. Hours before, Madhu had tried calling her sister Mamta (30), who is an associate professor with a city-based college. Poor phone reception defeated that effort. A day before the incident, Madhu had called us to inform that she...
01:11 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Berhampur (Odisha): A 22-year-old woman and her one-and-a-half-year old daughter were poisoned to death at Govindapur in Ganjam district allegedly by her in-laws who were demanding dowry, police said on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Sanjeeta Pradhan and her daughter Puja. Her husband Niranjan was away at Surat at the time of the incident on Tuesday night. Police detained Sanjeeta's mother-in-law and elder bother of the husband in connection...
02:35 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Patna: A school teacher in Bihar was allegedly beaten to death by her husband and parents-in-law who attacked her with sticks for not bringing in enough dowry, police said on Wednesday. Nuzhat Parween, 25, who taught at Nisha middle school in Katihar district, about 170 km from Patna, was killed on Tuesday, police said. The harassment over dowry began soon after she got married two years ago. "Her husband was...
01:34 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Noida: The Gautam Budh Nagar district court on Wednesday acquitted all the accused in the Nisha Sharma dowry case due to lack of concrete evidence. Nisha had shot to fame in 2003 after she called the police alleging that her bridegroom Manish Dalal and his parents had demanded Rs 12 lakh and car as dowry before the wedding. Police had arrested Manish Dalal and his family for dowry harassment. But...
10:19 AM, Mar 01, 2012
BANGALORE: In the quest for revenge, no bird will ever survive the battle of treachery and despair. While an armada of adorable avians seek revenge from a bunch of snickering piglets who stole their eggs; echoes of destruction may bring forth violence and grief. And, as these cute feathered creatures are hurled across the screen in an attempt at destroying structures housing the porcine enemies, one cant help but cheer...
08:59 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: On the eve of Daughters Day, the matrimonial website Shaadi.com had conducted a survey to gauge the acceptance of a girl child in modern India. The survey which received over 6000 responses from the website members across India highlighted the preference for a girl child and the maturity of the next-generation Indian parents. When asked if they would prefer a girl or a boy child, over 50% of...
03:30 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Hyderabad: A local court today granted conditional bail to G Shirish Bharadwaj, son-in-law of actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi, who is facing a dowry harassment case. The 13th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (Mahila court) ordered release of Bharadwaj on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 with two sureties of the same amount. The court, however, has directed him to appear before the Hyderabad Police every Sunday till a chargesheet is filed in...
12:39 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Twenty eight-year-old Ruchi Bhuttan in Gurgaon who was found hanging in her house on Tuesday. The police have now recovered her personal diary. It seems from the contents of the diary, that she was pushed to commit suicide. Two days after she was found hanging from her house in Gurgaon's upmarket DLF Phase II, her parents have now given the police a diary she maintained, which talks about...
08:03 AM, Jul 08, 2011
New Delhi: Twenty eight-year-old Ruchi Bhuttan was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her flat in the posh DLF Phase 2 area of Gurgaon. But while it may seem like suicide, her family alleges that Ruchi was being harassed for dowry by her husband. Ruchi's sister said, "She called at night saying they will kill her. Her dad-in-law says she was found hanging but we don't know if she...
08:35 AM, Jul 06, 2011
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07:44 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Citizen Journalist Rajkumari talks about how her daughter was physically assaulted by her in-laws for dowry. ...
07:12 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Hyderabad: Mayuri Yadav, 25, niece of Secunderabad Congress MP Anjan Kumar Yadav was found burnt to death in her house in Hyderabad, allegedly for dowry. Her charred body was found by neighbours and relatives, who then alerted the police. While Mayuri's father is accusing her in-laws of harassing her- they say she committed suicide. Victim's Sister-in-Law Kamati Yadav said, "We have not done anything. She had an argument with her...
08:13 AM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: The niece of Secunderabad Congress MP Anjan Kumar Yadav was found dead in her Hyderabad home on Sunday evening. The family says she was being harassed for dowry. The family members of the Congress MP allege that Mayuri was burnt to death following dowry harassment. A case has been filed against the girl's in-laws for dowry death. "The parents of Mayuri had earlier approached some elders complaining dowry...
10:03 AM, Jun 27, 2011
Hyderabad: City police on Tuesday registered a case against actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi's son-in-law G Shirish Bharadwaj whose wife Srija has alleged harassment by her husband for dowry. Based on a complaint by Srija that she was allegedly being harassed for dowry by her husband, the Central Crime Station (CCS), a wing of Hyderabad Police, has registered a case against Shirish, a senior police officer said. "The complainant (Srija) alleged that she...
01:39 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested Pawan Gupta, the husband of Nidhi Gupta who reportedly jumped to her death along with her two children off the 19th floor of high-rise building in Malad. Sunita Gupta, Nidhi's sister-in-law, was arrested on the charge of abetment of suicide on Monday. "Nidhi's husband Pawan Gupta was arrested from the city today. We are looking for other family members. Earlier Nidhi's sister-in-law Sunita was...
01:14 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Rewari: A young girl on Monday died of low blood pressure apparently caused due to depression after the boy with whom her marriage was fixed refused to tie the knot as her parents expressed their inability to meet his dowry demands, police said. The family of Kanchan, a resident of Mohalla Meharwara, had arranged her marriage with Saurab, a resident of UP's Hathras town. The wedding was to take place...
08:51 AM, Feb 09, 2011
Agartala: In an exemplary gesture against the evil of dowry, a newly-wed government school teacher in Tripura Sunday donated Rs 48,000 to the chief minister's relief fund after selling the gifts received by him in marriage. A resident of Dhanbilas village in northern Tripura, 37-year-old Bimal Singh Debbarma wedded Jesmi two months ago. "Despite my strong opposition, my father-in-law Chandra Mohan Debbarma during the marriage ceremony gave furniture, gold and...
06:17 PM, Jan 10, 2011
