Indian bride deaths
NZPA-AFP New Delhi A total of 16 married women who were harassed by their parents-in-law had died in Delhi from burns or hanging between January and mid-April this year, the Indian Parliament has been told. Allegations that dowry demands were behind the harassment had been made in 13 of the cases, the junior Interior Minister, Mr P. Venkatasubbiah, told the Lower House. He said 14 women had died from burns and two from hanging. Mr Vankatasubbiah said changes to the Dowry Prohibition Act were being preEared and that they would e introduced during the present session of Parliament. He said that four women, whose daughters were allegedly killed in their par-ents-in-laws’ house for not bringing an adequate dowry, went on hunger strike
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