dowry death

She died because she didn’t bring an AC She was driven to death, allegedly because she did not bring in an air conditioner. 22-year-old Preeti Kaur was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room at her husband's residence in Moti Nagar. Police said she committed suicide because she was...

Those who burn brides need to be hanged: Apex court 1 Jun 2009, 1621 hrs IST, IANS NEW DELHI: Voicing its disgust over the social evil of dowry death, the Supreme Court on Monday observed that perpetrators of bride burning "need to be hanged." The observation was made by the...

She was the ticket to a better life Before Amandeep Dhillon's short life ended in her murder, she was caught between a new family in the GTA she barely knew and one back in India Hours before she flew to Toronto on May 3, 2006, Amandeep Kaur Dhillon sat in her room chatting with Pawandeep...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102900729_pf.html washingtonpost.com . Indian Middle Class Grows, But Ugly Tradition Persists A young bride lived long enough to tell authorities that her husband and in-laws had set her on fire for not meeting their dowry...