The Allahabad High Court recently drew attention to a seeming disregard for a regulation outlined in the Dowry Prohibition (Maintenance of Lists of Presents to the Bride and Bridegroom) Rules, 1985. This... Read more »
A court in Jharkhand’s Hazaribag district has sentenced three members of a family to life imprisonment for the murder of a woman over dowry. According to the prosecution, the victim woman was... Read more »
Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh court has recently sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife for dowry in 2018. District and Sessions Judge Abdul Shahid convicted and passed the sentence against... Read more »
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court recently held that even if a daughter is given dowry at the time of her marriage, her entitlement to the family’s possessions does not end... Read more »
The Kerala High Court recently ruled that keeping gold ornaments in a locker in the wife’s name does not constitute entrustment of the ornaments to the husband or the husband’s family, and... Read more »