Seema Dixit, Faculty of Juridical Sciences, Rama University Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, U.P.
Under The Guidance Of - Dr. Ravi Kant Gupta, Associate Professor, Faculty Of Juridical Sciences, Rama University Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, U.P., India
ABSTRACT
Dowry is a social problem that keep going the oppression, torture, and murder of women in India. Dowry, in culture an expected part of arrange marriage. Violence against women can occur when the recipient deems the bride price unsatisfactory. In spite of various prohibiting laws, in India the practice not much has changed over the last 50 years. According to National Crime Records Bureau of India, recorded 19 women were killed for dowry every day in 2020 & 6,966 cases of dowry deaths, with 7,045 victims. The current review we reveals that despite efforts on the part of the Indian government, social activists and feminists organizations in India, not much has changed over the past decade, in fact, the problem has increased, resulting in an unprecedented amount of mortality and morbidity among women in India.
