Supreme Court on dowry death: A bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna said the legislative intent of incorporating Section 304B (dowry death) of the Indian Penal Code was to curb the menace of dowry death with a firm hand.
A married woman was allegedly strangulated to death by her husband and in-laws in a dispute over dowry in West Bengal's Malda district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place in Malda's Manikchawk police station area on Wednesday night.
The woman’s husband, who works as a salesman at a garments showroom in mall, has been detained following the complaint by victim’s family who accused him of killing over not fulfilling dowry demands.
Almost two weeks after radio jockey (RJ) Sandhya Singh was found hanging from the ceiling fan at the Army quarters in Bolarum, Hyderabad Police on Wednesday arrested her husband, an Indian Army major, under charges related to dowry death among others
To hang one's wife to death is a heinous crime but a husband cannot be convicted without any reliable evidence, a Delhi court has said while acquitting a man and his family members, all residents of east Delhi, in a 2008 murder and dowry death case.
New Delhi: A total of 24,771 dowry deaths have been reported in the country in past three years with maximum of them occurring in Uttar Pradesh with 7,048 deaths.In a written reply in Lok Sabha,
New Delhi, Jun 10: A sentence lesser than life term cannot be awarded to convicts for heinous offences like dowry death where the victim is killed in a brutal manner, the Supreme Court has ruled.A
New Delhi, Nov 3: The body of Dr Teena Dutta Gogna was found in her builder husband's house in posh Greater Kailash on Wednesday. Police have arrested her husband Vivek Gogna on charge of dowry
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