Another woman burnt alive for dowry

NOIDA: NP NEWS ONLINE-  Dowry, a transfer of parental property, gifts or money at the marriage of a daughter contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower in not a new concept for India which is banned but still takes place.

 Sadly, twenty-one dowry deaths are reported across the country every day.

In 2017, in Delhi, around 3,877 cases of cruelty by in-laws and husbands have been registered in 2016. Till March 15 this year, as many as 506 such cases have been reported in the city. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) states that in 2015, as many as 7,634 women died in the country due to dowry harassment.

Another horrifying incident came in light after a 30-year-old woman was set on fire by her in-laws in the Kalupura village of Rabupura area of Greater Kailash. The incident which took place on Tuesday night has added to the already deteriorating the law and order situation in the state.

The woman got married in 2010 and was mother of a six-and-a-half-year-old boy refused to give 5 lakh dowries to her husband’s parents and brother as they demanded. They then poured kerosene on her and set her on fire, said Station House Officer (SHO), Rabapura police station, Sunil Singh.

Later the neighbours of the family rushed the woman to the Safdarjung Hospital where she has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A team of police officers were dispatched to the woman’s home. However, the in-laws had already fled their home.

The woman’s brother told that she called him on the day of the incident and urged him to pick her up from her in-law’s home. She was crying on the phone and told me that they were thrashing her. In fact, the victim’s brother also told that the family gave her in-laws many things as dowry at the time of the wedding, however, her alcoholic husband kept assaulting and harassing her for more.