“An analysis of dowry and dowry offences in India”

In the Indian subcontinent the most common and fatal manifestation of violence against women are dowry offences. Indian society carries some outmoded customs and ruinous practices and the dowry system is one of them. The phenomenon of dowry death has registered a sharp increase since the last three decades in India. The young and newly wedded girls are beaten, tortured and done to death for bringing no dowry or insufficient dowry. This evil practice is not confined only to any particular community but, it has entered into each and every section of our society. There is hardly a day when newspapers do not report death of newly wedded girls. Many of these are related to dowry and so can be termed as dowry-death. It is remarkable that this crime is not confined to uneducated and poor families only but, highly educated and socially respected people also indulge in these crimes against newly married girls.