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Supreme Court dowry case order: Why enforcement requires state accountability, better evidence, lawyer explains
December 18, 2025 2:56 pm
Supreme court dowry case in India: Advocate Dhruv Gupta, who regularly represents women facing dowry related issues, says the effectiveness will hinge on enforcement mechanisms, as he underlines lack of resources, infrastructure as some of the real-world hurdles.
Training for cops, judges, changes in school curriculum: How Supreme Court wants to combat ‘evil’ of dowry related offences
December 16, 2025 1:42 pm
Supreme Court on Dowry Evils: The top court bench overturned the acquittal of a man and his mother for allegedly killing his wife over dowry demand and called it an ‘evil’ practice, needing ‘urgent’ eradication.
Ayesha suicide: Despite one death every hour, the menace of dowry persists
March 05, 2021 6:21 pm
Stories of harassment and deaths over dowry cut across class, financial, educational and religious barriers. Though dowry was made illegal decades ago, the crime is still rarely reported to the police
Give typist job to man who failed to submit ‘no dowry’ undertaking, Bombay High Court tells govt
August 01, 2019 2:46 am
The petitioner, Nilesh Pasarkar, had moved the court challenging the order of a City Civil Court, Bombay, on March 3, 2018 barring the petitioner to join the duty as he failed to serve a declaration stating that he has not taken any dowry from his wife.
Delhi court: 'Daughter-in-law has no right in parents-in-law's property'
January 05, 2015 4:03 pm
Denying allegations of torture or dowry demand, parents in law claim they are the absolute owner of the property.
Delhi court: Couple staying separately doesn't mean dowry demand improbable
January 05, 2015 3:54 pm
Woman petitioned that her daughter-in-law had in 2007 told the police that there was demand of a car and Rs 10 lakh as dowry.
ACE Detective asked to give Rs 10,000 maintenance to his wife
October 10, 2012 5:43 pm
Soon after marriage,she was facing harassment and demand for more dowry.
Bravehearts get Rs 50L dowry-demanding doc caught by cops
May 22, 2012 5:36 pm
A doctor has been booked by police for demanding dowry from his would-be wife.
Post-dowry demand,engineer to pay Rs 6,000 alimony
May 07, 2012 7:33 pm
A civil engineer has been directed by a court here to pay a monthly alimony of Rs 6,000 to his wife,who was thrown out of her in-laws' home barely five months after her marriage for allegedly not meeting dowry demands.
Woman,baby killed by in-laws over dowry demand
May 06, 2012 11:15 am
The woman identified as Farzana was pushed from the building the family lives in Lahori Gate.
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