India Reports 550 ‘Dowry Deaths’ in 1984
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NEW DELHI — At least 550 Indian women were victims of “dowry deaths” in 1984, despite a ban on the payment of dowries and government calls for severe police action against the practice, Parliament was told Wednesday.
A dowry death is the murder of a woman in her in-laws’ home in the first years of marriage for her failure to bring sufficient dowry to her husband’s family.
Ram Dulari Sinha, minister of state for home affairs, said there were 444 dowry deaths in 1983 and 389 in 1982.
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