dowry

‘Harassed’ for dowry, woman ends life

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A 23-year-old woman committed suicide after her husband and in-laws harassed her for dowry, Vanasthalipuram police said. The victim hanged herself to death at her house in Hariharapuram Colony on Wednesday. According to the police, the victim and her husband, identified as S Raghavender (31), were married in June 2018. After four months of marriage, … Read more

HC awards seven-year jail to three in dowry death case

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Setting aside a lower court’s judgment that had acquitted three accused in a dowry death case in Medak, the Telangana High Court sentenced them to seven-year rigorous imprisonment. Delivering the verdict in an appeal filed by the victim’s family, a division bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Abhishek Reddy imposed a … Read more