Dowry : a historical background
A 20 year old suhana‘s dreams of a happy married life were shattered when her in laws started torturing and then set her in flames for Dowry in Indira Nagar , Lucknow . This is not a story of only one women but of many . In 2010 the number of cases registered were 8391 meaning that every 90 min a bride was burned according to the statistics of National Crime Records Bureau .Today almost in each and every state of our country thousands of cases are reported . According to the Woman and Child Development minister Krishna Tirath , the number of death in dowry cases are follows : State 2007 2008 U.P. 2,386 2,237 Bihar 918 1,210 Madhya Pradesh 834 805 West Bengal 574 471 Punjab 132 128 Delhi 136 129 Maharashtra 361 390 Rajasthan 230 439...