Jalandhar Court District

Code: JRN 130

Presented by

Tirtho Tanzeer Rubayat

Dowry case  increasing in Punjab

We know a dowry  is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.  In fact one  theory is that dowry was practiced among upper caste households and spread as lower castes emulated these practices to improve their social  mobility. The new study  says this is not clear because  the  practice  of dowry began  around the same time for both the high and low caste groups. Dowry is an all Indian phenomenon. In 2019, India reported 7.1 thousand dowry death. When we are living in a developing and digital world but our mentality is till now bag dated. There are so many dowry cases was law suit in India. In 2003 Nysa Sharma’s dowry case was came to lime light and  all kinds of people’s were reacted against such kind of case. But this system never ends. It is continuing. In June 9  2023 at Nawanshahr woman gets life in dowry death case. Disposing of the murder case of a woman who was set ablaze by her in laws on July 30, 2011, the district and sessions court. Nawanshahr has sentenced a woman accused in the case to life term punishment. Victims husband and mother in law were already sentenced on January 22 2013. Jalandhar district education department has gathered information 53 such as schools in the district of dowry case, husband in laws booked for murder. Anyway dowry is strictly punishable under Dowry prohibition Act of 1961. We want proper implication   of this act when any woman face such kind of problem. We have to prevent this and we have to do increase social awareness.