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DOWRY DEATH

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Dowry deaths are deaths of married girls who're murdered or driven to suicide through non-stop harassment and torture by using their husbands and in-laws over a dispute about their dowry, making the girls's homes the maximum dangerous area for them to be. Dowry deaths are determined predominantly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran.

 

India reports the best total number of dowry deaths with 8,391 such deaths stated in 2010, which means there are 1.4 deaths in step with 100,000 women. female dowry deaths account for forty to 50 percentage of all female homicides recorded yearly in India, representing a solid fashion over the period 1999 to 2016. Adjusted for populace, Pakistan, with 2,000 said such deaths in keeping with year, has the best charge of dowry death at 2. forty-five in keeping with 100,000 women.

Dowry deaths relate to a bride's suicide or killing committed by her husband and his family soon after the marriage because 

of their dissatisfaction with the dowry. It is typically the culmination of a series of prior domestic abuses by the husband's family. Most dowry deaths occur when the young woman, unable to bear the harassment and torture, commits suicide. Most of these suicides are by hanging, poisoning or by fire. Sometimes the woman is killed by being set on fire by her husband or in-laws; this is known as "bride burning", and is sometimes disguised as suicide or accident. Death by burning of Indian women has been more frequently attributed to dowry conflicts. In dowry deaths, the groom's family is the perpetrator of murder or suicide.

 

India has by far the highest number of dowry related deaths in the world according to Indian National Crime Record Bureau. In 2012, 8,233 dowry death cases were reported across India.[1] This means a bride was burned every 90 minutes, or dowry issues cause 1.4 deaths per year per 100,000 women in India.

According to a 1996 report by Indian police, every year it receives over 2,500 reports of bride burning. The Indian National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports that there were 8,331 dowry death cases registered in India in 2011.[1] Incidents of dowry deaths during the year 2008 (8,172) have increased by 14.4 per cent over the 1998 level (7,146), while India's population grew at 17.6% over the 10-year period. The accuracy of these figures has received a great deal of scrutiny from critics who believe dowry deaths are consistently under-reported.

 

Dowry deaths in India are not limited to any specific religion.

Women are taken into consideration to be the backbone of society, and killing or burning them only for dowry is a shameful act in itself. All said and accomplished and to obliterate such heinous crimes some positive provisions and measures need to be undertaken by the government with the maximum prominent one in all keeping ladies on par with guys so they're not dependent on them and additionally taking ladies reservation as a source of women empowerment. Small modifications make a massive distinction in an effort to get rid of this peril we must create awareness the various human beings in opposition to dowry. Isn’t it quite paradoxical, a land where marriage is taken into consideration sacred, women are burned inside the arms of people themselves for the problem of some pence. Dowry ought to be prohibited.
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