Monday, January 21, 2019

Bride burning

Time Magazine reported that dowry deaths in India increased from around 400 a year in the early 1980s to around 5800 a year by the middle of the 1990s.[6] A year later, CNN ran a story saying that every year police receive more than 2500 reports of bride burning.[7] According to Indian National Crime Record Bureau, there were 1948 convictions and 3876 acquittals in dowry death cases in 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_burning

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