Angry man burns wife to death
NZPA New Delhi A New Delhi fruit vendor who burnt his wife to death when she failed to cook him dinner was sentenced to life imprisonment, the police said.
The prosecution said that the man had arrived home
at midnight and asked his wife to bring him dinner. When she told him there was no food in the house, he beat her, doused her in kerosene, then set her alight. Some 200 New Delhi women have been burnt to death in the last five months, mostly because their families have provided insufficient dowries.
Dowries are legally prohibited in India although the custom remains widespread.
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