dowry death in a sentence
Examples
- In 1986, the Indian Parliament added dowry deaths as a new domestic violence crime.
- Full-length plays on dowry deaths include'The Bride Who Would Not Burn'
- In dowry deaths, the groom s family is the perpetrator of murder or suicide.
- The existing law only provided for life imprisonment for dowry deaths and three years for rape.
- The National Crime Records Bureau in Delhi reported about 6000 dowry deaths a year in the 1990s.
- Dowry death rates per 100, 000 people map for Indian States and Union Territories in 2012.
- The ratio of dowry deaths are about the same as the ratio of population in India by religions.
- When a dowry death is done by setting the woman on fire, it is called bride burning.
- Simultaneously, there had been a rise in dowry deaths in society, which added to his despair.
- Most dowry deaths occur when the young woman, unable to bear the harassment and torture, commits suicide.