http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/06/dowry-deaths-indias-shame/
Dowry Deaths: India’s Shame
What the Women and Child Development Minister Ms. Maneka Gandhi, admitted on the floor of the Lok Sabha was startling, between 2012 and 2014, around 25,000 women either committed suicide or were killed due to dowry harassment[iii]; this vindicates the claim of women’s movement in India. Taunts, mental and physical abuse and ultimate death by murder or ‘forced-to-commit-suicide’ is an open fact of the Indian society. While dowry and
domestic violence are reprimanded by Law, its continuance raises many questions. The sheer numbers of incidences, low conviction rates and voices against for change in law are disturbing and raise an alarm for all of us. No one is unaffected by this.
The Indian Constitution grants equal rights to woman as a human being but has the society stopped seeing her more as than a chattel? The Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA), came way back in 1961as a result of the uproar of the women’s movement around the bursting of stoves in kitchens and the deaths of several newly-wed women. Ever since the ground situation and factual numbers don’t seem to have changed much. By mere extrapolating the figures placed on record by the government – if in 2016, 20 women are killed every day, 4,68,000 married women have been killed in India due to tortures related to dowry. These are only the reported numbers, the ones that came to notice. In reality the number of women killed due to this is much more. Resultantly, we can say that over 5 lakh women have been killed for dowry in India.
Dowry Deaths: India’s Shame
What the Women and Child Development Minister Ms. Maneka Gandhi, admitted on the floor of the Lok Sabha was startling, between 2012 and 2014, around 25,000 women either committed suicide or were killed due to dowry harassment[iii]; this vindicates the claim of women’s movement in India. Taunts, mental and physical abuse and ultimate death by murder or ‘forced-to-commit-suicide’ is an open fact of the Indian society. While dowry and
The Indian Constitution grants equal rights to woman as a human being but has the society stopped seeing her more as than a chattel? The Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA), came way back in 1961as a result of the uproar of the women’s movement around the bursting of stoves in kitchens and the deaths of several newly-wed women. Ever since the ground situation and factual numbers don’t seem to have changed much. By mere extrapolating the figures placed on record by the government – if in 2016, 20 women are killed every day, 4,68,000 married women have been killed in India due to tortures related to dowry. These are only the reported numbers, the ones that came to notice. In reality the number of women killed due to this is much more. Resultantly, we can say that over 5 lakh women have been killed for dowry in India.
