Dowry Death

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.

More that 15 years after a woman died in unnatural circumstances, a court here has convicted four accused, including her husband and in-laws, of causing her death for dowry and subjecting the victim to cruelty.

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the conviction of a man accused of harassing her wife leading to her death, observing variance in multiple dying declarations.

About 20 dowry deaths were reported every day in the country between 2017 and 2021, with Uttar Pradesh recording the highest at six deaths daily.

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda on Tuesday sentenced a man to 14 years in jail for killing his wife for dowry.

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.

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

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.

Before the three sisters and their children were found dead in a well, they left a message blaming the family they had married into.

The police recovered the bodies of all three victims and the two children from a well in the Dudu village this morning, four days after the women went missing.

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.

A Kerala court on Monday convicted the husband of Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student who hanged herself in her marital home in June last year, for dowry death and abetting her suicide.

The body of a woman was exhumed days after it was buried following registration of a case of dowry death in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said on Saturday.

Acting swiftly on a complaint of dowry death, the Agra police on Sunday retrieved the body of a 24-year-old woman from a funeral pyre and sent it for post-mortem.

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.

More that 15 years after a woman died in unnatural circumstances, a court here has convicted four accused, including her husband and in-laws, of causing her death for dowry and subjecting the victim to cruelty.

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the conviction of a man accused of harassing her wife leading to her death, observing variance in multiple dying declarations.

About 20 dowry deaths were reported every day in the country between 2017 and 2021, with Uttar Pradesh recording the highest at six deaths daily.

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda on Tuesday sentenced a man to 14 years in jail for killing his wife for dowry.

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.

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

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.

Before the three sisters and their children were found dead in a well, they left a message blaming the family they had married into.

The police recovered the bodies of all three victims and the two children from a well in the Dudu village this morning, four days after the women went missing.

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.

A Kerala court on Monday convicted the husband of Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student who hanged herself in her marital home in June last year, for dowry death and abetting her suicide.

The body of a woman was exhumed days after it was buried following registration of a case of dowry death in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said on Saturday.

Acting swiftly on a complaint of dowry death, the Agra police on Sunday retrieved the body of a 24-year-old woman from a funeral pyre and sent it for post-mortem.