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Wedding, Affair, Abortion, Assault: UP Woman Dead After 5-Month Torture
A 32-year-old woman who married a Merchant Navy officer five months ago has been found dead in her Lucknow home
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Woman Accuses Husband Of Installing Spy Cameras In Bedroom In Pune: Cops
A Maharashtra government officer has alleged her husband secretly installed spy cameras in their bedroom to record her private moments, and subjected her to mental and physical harassment by demanding Rs 1.5 lakh dowry, police said.
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UP Woman's Detailed Suicide Note On Arm, Leg, Stomach Over Dowry Harassment
The woman, in the note written on her arm, legs, and stomach with a pen, expressed the pain she was going through due to the harassment by her husband, Kundan, and his family.
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Newly-Wed UP Man Tortures Wife With Cigarette Burns Over Dowry, Case Filed: Cops
Barely two days after getting married, a man in Bhadohi district here allegedly assaulted his wife regularly with cigarette burns over dowry demands while his father and sister also assaulted her, the police said on Saturday.
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UP Woman Thrashed By Husband And In-Laws, Hot Iron Pressed On Genitals, Dies
A woman, married for 10 years and a mother of two young children, has died after allegedly being brutally thrashed and tortured by pressing a hot iron all over her body, including her genitals, in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh.
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Newlywed Woman Goes On Sit-In Outside In-Laws' House Over Dowry Demand
A newlywed woman has been sitting outside her in-laws' house in A to Z Colony since March 30, after she was denied entry by her husband Pranav Singhal and his family, allegedly over a Rs 50 lakh dowry demand.
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Uttar Pradesh Woman Alleges Foeticide, Unnatural Sex, Dowry Harassment, Police Begins Probe
A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi has filed a complaint against her husband and in-laws alleging forced unnatural sex, dowry demands and foeticide.
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Boxer Saweety Boora Files FIR Against Husband Alleging Dowry Demand
Arjuna awardee and former world champion boxer Saweety Boora has lodged an FIR against her Asiad bronze-winning kabaddi player husband Deepak Hooda, accusing him and his family of assaulting her for dowry.
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Chairs Thrown, Wedding Called Off After Groom Garlands Bride's Best Friend
Radha Devi, the bride slapped her groom for being drunk, demanding dowry and accidentally garlanding her best friend.
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"Dowry Demand Not Needed To Invoke Cruelty Charge Against Husband": Top Court
The Supreme Court has said dowry demand was not a prerequisite to constitute the offence of cruelty under section 498A of the IPC introduced in 1983 to protect married women from the husband and in-laws.
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Woman Alleges In-Laws Injected HIV-Infected Syringe Over Dowry Demands In UP
A woman here has alleged that her in-laws administered an HIV-infected syringe to her after their dowry demands were not met, police said on Sunday. The allegation made by the woman's parents are under investigation, officials said.
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Man, Sister-In-Law Get Life Term For Murder Of Wife Over Dowry Demands In UP
The court found Angad Yadav (32) and his sister-in-law Renu Devi (wife of his elder brother) guilty of killing Tejam Devi in 2018 over dowry demands.
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Mindset That Women Endure Suffering Exploited By Perpetrators: High Court
The Delhi High Court has lamented the killing of women due to dowry demands even decades after its criminalisation and said the mindset that a woman "endures" sufferings in her matrimonial home emboldens the perpetrators.
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Triple Talaq On Video Call: Cops Probe Dowry Harassment By Husband, Family
A woman has accused her husband and in-laws of harassment over dowry demands and being divorced via triple talaq on a video call.
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"Extremely Tortured By Wife, In-Laws": Delhi Cafe Owner's Video Note Before Suicide
In a video recorded before his death, 40-year-old Delhi-based cafe owner Puneet Khurana alleged that mental torture and unreasonable demands from his wife Manika Pahwa and in-laws drove him to suicide.
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Wedding, Affair, Abortion, Assault: UP Woman Dead After 5-Month Torture
A 32-year-old woman who married a Merchant Navy officer five months ago has been found dead in her Lucknow home
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Woman Accuses Husband Of Installing Spy Cameras In Bedroom In Pune: Cops
A Maharashtra government officer has alleged her husband secretly installed spy cameras in their bedroom to record her private moments, and subjected her to mental and physical harassment by demanding Rs 1.5 lakh dowry, police said.
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UP Woman's Detailed Suicide Note On Arm, Leg, Stomach Over Dowry Harassment
The woman, in the note written on her arm, legs, and stomach with a pen, expressed the pain she was going through due to the harassment by her husband, Kundan, and his family.
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Newly-Wed UP Man Tortures Wife With Cigarette Burns Over Dowry, Case Filed: Cops
Barely two days after getting married, a man in Bhadohi district here allegedly assaulted his wife regularly with cigarette burns over dowry demands while his father and sister also assaulted her, the police said on Saturday.
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UP Woman Thrashed By Husband And In-Laws, Hot Iron Pressed On Genitals, Dies
A woman, married for 10 years and a mother of two young children, has died after allegedly being brutally thrashed and tortured by pressing a hot iron all over her body, including her genitals, in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh.
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Newlywed Woman Goes On Sit-In Outside In-Laws' House Over Dowry Demand
A newlywed woman has been sitting outside her in-laws' house in A to Z Colony since March 30, after she was denied entry by her husband Pranav Singhal and his family, allegedly over a Rs 50 lakh dowry demand.
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Uttar Pradesh Woman Alleges Foeticide, Unnatural Sex, Dowry Harassment, Police Begins Probe
A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi has filed a complaint against her husband and in-laws alleging forced unnatural sex, dowry demands and foeticide.
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Boxer Saweety Boora Files FIR Against Husband Alleging Dowry Demand
Arjuna awardee and former world champion boxer Saweety Boora has lodged an FIR against her Asiad bronze-winning kabaddi player husband Deepak Hooda, accusing him and his family of assaulting her for dowry.
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Chairs Thrown, Wedding Called Off After Groom Garlands Bride's Best Friend
Radha Devi, the bride slapped her groom for being drunk, demanding dowry and accidentally garlanding her best friend.
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"Dowry Demand Not Needed To Invoke Cruelty Charge Against Husband": Top Court
The Supreme Court has said dowry demand was not a prerequisite to constitute the offence of cruelty under section 498A of the IPC introduced in 1983 to protect married women from the husband and in-laws.
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Woman Alleges In-Laws Injected HIV-Infected Syringe Over Dowry Demands In UP
A woman here has alleged that her in-laws administered an HIV-infected syringe to her after their dowry demands were not met, police said on Sunday. The allegation made by the woman's parents are under investigation, officials said.
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Man, Sister-In-Law Get Life Term For Murder Of Wife Over Dowry Demands In UP
The court found Angad Yadav (32) and his sister-in-law Renu Devi (wife of his elder brother) guilty of killing Tejam Devi in 2018 over dowry demands.
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Mindset That Women Endure Suffering Exploited By Perpetrators: High Court
The Delhi High Court has lamented the killing of women due to dowry demands even decades after its criminalisation and said the mindset that a woman "endures" sufferings in her matrimonial home emboldens the perpetrators.
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Triple Talaq On Video Call: Cops Probe Dowry Harassment By Husband, Family
A woman has accused her husband and in-laws of harassment over dowry demands and being divorced via triple talaq on a video call.
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"Extremely Tortured By Wife, In-Laws": Delhi Cafe Owner's Video Note Before Suicide
In a video recorded before his death, 40-year-old Delhi-based cafe owner Puneet Khurana alleged that mental torture and unreasonable demands from his wife Manika Pahwa and in-laws drove him to suicide.
