Dowry cases are increasing day by day at an alarming rate in our country. Dowry is a curse in our social life. The word dowry means any wea...
Dowry cases are increasing day by day at an alarming rate in our country. Dowry is a curse in our social life. The word dowry means any wealth in cash or kind, taken by the son in law from the side of the bride at the time of marriage or afterwards. Recently the practice of giving and taking dowry in marriage has become a common system in our society, sometimes in different names.
There is a news that A reputed doctor from Nallasopara and his wife have been arrested for allegedly harassing and demanding Rs 10 lakh from their daughter-in-law, a software engineer.
Smita Menon, 25, ma
rried Abhijit Menon, 28, also a software engineer on November 30, 2008. They stayed at Shanti Park, Nallasopara, with Abhijit’s mother Jyoti and stepfather, Dr Mohan Menon, who has two clinics at Nallasopara and Matunga.
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Dowry was outlawed in 1961. Still the practice is widespread among all the communities of India. What a strange way! How can a man marry a woman to live like one body and one soul and bargain for money and other material things from the girl’s parents?
