Dowry Harassment

Mohammed Shami charged by Kolkata Police in dowry and sexual harassment cases weeks before World Cup in England

Shami's wife Hasin Jahan had accused the cricketer of sexual offences and domestic violence in March last year after exposing his extra-marital affair in public.

In Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, women form 'Green Gang' to take on abusers in rough and ready manner

The Green Gang was formed by Anguri Dahadiya in 2010 after her house was seized by an influential person in Kannauj.

Bobby Darling's husband, accused of domestic abuse, gets bail after paying fine of Rs 15 lakh

Bobby Darling had filed a case against her husband Ramnik Sharma in 2017, alleging domestic abuse, unnatural sex and dowry harassment

PIL in SC opposing polygamy, nikah halala is good starting point; discriminatory practices in all religions must be questioned

Ashwini Upadhyay has filed a PIL praying that practices of polygamy and nikah halala should be declared unconstitutional. The petition is a good starting point.

Triple talaq bill: Government bulldozing its way through Lok Sabha shows its animus towards Indian Muslims

The triple talaq bill is, quite simply, the BJP’s approach to delegitimise Indian Muslims. The proposed legislation has its roots in hatred of Muslims being nursed in our political culture.

Supreme Court rules out instant arrests in dowry harassment cases, makes probe a must

To curb misuse of anti-dowry laws, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed that no arrest should be made in dowry cases without examining the complaint.

IIT scholar Manjula Devak's suicide shows that in India, dowry is still a silent killer of women

The death of Manjula Devak, a PhD scholar from IIT Delhi, has exposed a society which still views women only as bringers of dowry. Not as sentient humans beings with lives, dreams and abilities of their own.

Dowry death social crime but can't convict husband without proof, says Delhi court

It is a heinous crime to hang one's wife to death but a husband cannot be convicted without any reliable evidence, a Delhi court has said while acquitting a man and his family members in a murder and dowry death case.

Woman throws three kids into well, jumps to her death

A 28-year-old woman, who was 'harassed by her in-laws' for money, allegedly threw her three minor children into a well and then jumped into it, in the Marathwada region

DUSU chief who threatened to shoot 'JNU traitors' in trouble for dowry harssment

Delhi University Student Union President, Satender Awana was booked for attempt to murder, molestation, demanding and harassing for dowry