DOWRY DEATH: NEED FOR STRINGENT PUNISHMENT
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This author in this paper seeks to address the issue of insufficient and ineffective punishments for dowry death. Absence of stringent laws while punishing the criminals, the unshakable customs and inequality face by women in India all amounts to the root cause of dowry and the deaths caused due to it. Women are consistently subject to violence and harassment. She is burnt, harassed, murdered and the law only sticks to fine or life imprisonment. Increasing numbers of death figures only shows the incapability of the current laws to control the growing menace of dowry. After the enactment of Dowry Prohibition Act in 1961 there were many laws which were made and many amendments were done but all amounted to the failure of legislation as dowry is still taken and given, death caused by dowry still takes place, and criminals still go unpunished.
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