Dowry Case

In a major embarrassment to the ruling BJD in Odisha, at least two senior leaders of the party are embroiled in alleged domestic violence and dowry torture cases even as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik bats for women empowerment in Odisha.

There is an increase in the number of dowry, rape, and attempt to rape complaints received in the National Commission for Women in the last three years, the Union Women and Child Development Ministry said.

A court here has rejected two pleas filed against Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui by his "former" wife Zianab, seeking directions to police to register cases against him for alleged dowry harassment.

A case has been registered against Haryanvi singer and dancer Sapna Chaudhary and her family members for their alleged involvement in harassing and demanding dowry from the former Big Boss contestant's sister-in-law.

A sessions court here sentenced a 33-year-old former fireman to rigorous imprisonment for life for setting his wife on fire after harassing her for dowry in suburban Mulund six years ago.

A woman and her three-year-old daughter on Sunday succumbed to burn injuries in Tavakkapur Nagra of Kadipur area in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur, police said.

A court in New Delhi on Friday acquitted the husband and mother-in-law of a woman, who died by suicide, holding there was not enough evidence to prove the dead was subjected to cruelty for dowry that drove her to take the extreme step.

Usual acts of taunting in a family do not amount to cruelty, a Delhi court has ruled, while acquitting a man and his parents in a dowry death case where they were accused of subjecting the woman to cruelty that prompted her to die by suicide.

Three policemen were suspended on Sunday after an accused in a dowry harassment case jumped out of a moving bus while he was being taken to a court and died in Rajasthan's Churu district, officials said.

A man, who was arrested in a dowry death case, died by suicide in the district jail on Monday, a senior prison official said.

A woman here has alleged that her husband, who had been harassing her for dowry, divorced her through the outlawed practice of 'triple talaq,' police said on Monday.

In a dispute over dowry, a man killed his wife with an axe in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, the police said on Sunday. The police have arrested the man.

The Allahabad High Court has said matrimonial disputes are often being "exaggerated manifold" with allegations of dowry-related atrocities.

The Karnataka High Court has cancelled a dowry case proceedings against eight members of a family including an 80-year-old grandmother of a man, after finding the wife's allegations against them "bald and vague."

The husband of Vismaya, a medical student who hanged herself at her homein Kerala's Kollam district last year, was sentenced to 10 years in jailtoday for dowry death.

In a major embarrassment to the ruling BJD in Odisha, at least two senior leaders of the party are embroiled in alleged domestic violence and dowry torture cases even as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik bats for women empowerment in Odisha.

There is an increase in the number of dowry, rape, and attempt to rape complaints received in the National Commission for Women in the last three years, the Union Women and Child Development Ministry said.

A court here has rejected two pleas filed against Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui by his "former" wife Zianab, seeking directions to police to register cases against him for alleged dowry harassment.

A case has been registered against Haryanvi singer and dancer Sapna Chaudhary and her family members for their alleged involvement in harassing and demanding dowry from the former Big Boss contestant's sister-in-law.

A sessions court here sentenced a 33-year-old former fireman to rigorous imprisonment for life for setting his wife on fire after harassing her for dowry in suburban Mulund six years ago.

A woman and her three-year-old daughter on Sunday succumbed to burn injuries in Tavakkapur Nagra of Kadipur area in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur, police said.

A court in New Delhi on Friday acquitted the husband and mother-in-law of a woman, who died by suicide, holding there was not enough evidence to prove the dead was subjected to cruelty for dowry that drove her to take the extreme step.

Usual acts of taunting in a family do not amount to cruelty, a Delhi court has ruled, while acquitting a man and his parents in a dowry death case where they were accused of subjecting the woman to cruelty that prompted her to die by suicide.

Three policemen were suspended on Sunday after an accused in a dowry harassment case jumped out of a moving bus while he was being taken to a court and died in Rajasthan's Churu district, officials said.

A man, who was arrested in a dowry death case, died by suicide in the district jail on Monday, a senior prison official said.

A woman here has alleged that her husband, who had been harassing her for dowry, divorced her through the outlawed practice of 'triple talaq,' police said on Monday.

In a dispute over dowry, a man killed his wife with an axe in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, the police said on Sunday. The police have arrested the man.

The Allahabad High Court has said matrimonial disputes are often being "exaggerated manifold" with allegations of dowry-related atrocities.

The Karnataka High Court has cancelled a dowry case proceedings against eight members of a family including an 80-year-old grandmother of a man, after finding the wife's allegations against them "bald and vague."

The husband of Vismaya, a medical student who hanged herself at her homein Kerala's Kollam district last year, was sentenced to 10 years in jailtoday for dowry death.