Bangalore Woman Commits Suicide After #Dowry Demanding Finance Cancels Wedding

Bangalore, July 25, 2015

22-year-old Nalina hanged herself soon after her engagement when her fiance’s family threatened to call off the wedding if their dowry demands were not met. She left behind a 12 page suicide note.The wedding was scheduled to be held in Shira on September 5 and 6. Nalina, a resident of Ashwatha Nagar on Old Airport Road, was working as a sales promoter in a reputed mall. She committed suicide at her house on July 8 when her family members had gone to Tumakuru to attend the final rites of another relative who had died there.

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/crime/Harassed-for-dowry-fiance-takes-her-life/articleshow/48208645.cms

Harassed for #dowry woman’s commits suicide with her infant

3 July 2015, Vellore

23 year old  with her 9 month son committed suicide, also killing him, as she jumped into a water tank with her baby in her arms. She lived with her mother-in-law who had been harassing her for dowry while her husband worked in Singapore

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Dowry-Issue-Tied-to-Womans-Suicide-Pact-with-Son-Mom/2015/07/03/article2899024.ece

Another Suspicious “Suicide” in A #Dowry Abuse Case

Moga, June 19, 2015

26 year old Mandeep Kaur supposed suicide by burning, is yet another suspicious case of dowry abuse. Her husband and inlaws had been abusing her for dowry since her marriage two years ago. According to her mother, Parkash Kaur, she received a phone call from Hariewala on Thursday that Mandeep Kaur had burnt herself by pouring petrol on herself and was undergoing treatment at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot.

“As soon as we received the phone call, we reached the hospital immediately but Mandeep Kaur was declared dead by the doctors of in the emergency ward,” said Parkash Kaur. After autopsy, the body handed over to family members.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/bathinda/woman-ends-life-in-moga-village-in-laws-booked-in-dowry-case/article1-1360322.aspx

Amazon employee in India commits suicide because of #dowry abuse

12 June 2015, Bangalore

Deepika B. , a 24 year-old Amazon. com, committed suicide, and left a note saying she did so because she could not bear the abuse by her husband for dowry. She had moved out of her in-laws and husband’s house, to escape the abuse and had been living separately. But her parents were pressurizing her to return to her husband’s house and compromise to make the marriage work.

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/bengaluru-amazon-employee-commits-suicide-after-alleged-dowry-harassment/

Harassed for dowry, 24 yr old Yogita committed suicide

Shirdi, 12 May 2015
24-year-old  Yogita Mahale committed suicide by hanging herself in a village here, police said today. Yogita a resident of Pohegaon village, who was being harassed for dowry by her husband and in-laws, is said to have committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan at her residence on Thursday Shirdi police station in-charge Pramod Wagh said.

http://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/harassed-for-dowry-woman-hangs-self-115050900455_1.html

Husband refused bail for the dowry related deaths of his wife & child

20 April Mumbai

A High Court had refused bail to the husband of a woman who was found drowned to death with her 1 year old son in a lake. The husband claimed it was suicide. But the judge argued even if it was, she was driven to it because of persistent harassment and abuse for dowry and gold.

http://m.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/bombay-hc-rejects-bail-application-of-man-in-dowry-harassment-case/article1-1339141.aspx

Delhi Judge Rules “Minor beatings” By Husband As Acceptable In A #Dowry Related Suicide

March 31, 2015, New Delhi

In a case where the prosecution has argued that physically abused by the husband for dowry, a woman was driven to suicide, as is the case with hundreds of dowry related deaths (murders) in India, the judge in a Delhi trial court ruled that “Minor incidents of beatings” do not amount to cruelty upon wife, while acquitting a man in the dowry death case of his wife. Giving the benefit of doubt to Delhi resident Jagmohan, the court said, “Minor incidents of beatings on small issues can take place in any household and it would be unsafe and rather hazardous to overstretch these and give them the colour of cruelty as defined in the explanation attached to Section 498A IPC.”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Delhi-court-Minor-beating-by-husband-is-not-cruelty/articleshow/46751663.cms

Woman Poisoned to Death for Dowry in Lucknow, India

Lucknow, UP, 23 January, 2015

After six months of marriage, 23-year-old Saraswati’s in-laws started torturing her demanding Rs 50,000 in cash and gold chain as dowry.  On January 20, her father was informed by Saraswati’s in-laws that she was admitted in Trauma Centre after consumed poison. Upon reaching the hospital, he learnt from Saraswati that her in-laws were the ones who gave her poison. Saraswati died soon after. Budhram has filed a case against his daughter’s husband Moolnarayan, his parents and brother at the BKT police station.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Woman-poisoned-for-dowry/articleshow/45997641.cms?

Indian #woman in the #US commits suicide due to dowry harassment

20 January, 2014, California

An woman who was married to an Indian man and was living in California since 1999 committed suicide because according to her family, her husband kept harassing her for dowry. Her family had already paid a large dowry at the time of the wedding.
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-01-20/Prakasam-woman-commits-suicide-in-US-dowry-harassment-the-cause-126903

Chaya Mandal: Another Woman Burnt to #Death for #Dowry in India

29 December, 2014, Malda, West Bengal

Pintu Mandal who had been married to Chaya for 5 years, has been charged with murder for burning his wife to death for dowry. Pintu currently is on the run with his parents who along with him had started torturing Chaya for dowry, soon after the wedding.

http://echoofindia.com/malda-wife-burned-death-dowry-74790