THERE ARE MANY SOCIAL EVILS IN INDIA DOWRY MEANS TO GIVE MONEY, GOODS, OR ESTATE THAT A WOMAN BRINGS

TO HER HUSBAND IN MARRIAGE.

DOWRY IS PREVALENT SINCE FROM THE TIME OF KINGS AND QUEENS IN INDIA .

EARLIER, DOWRY WAS GIVEN ONLY AS A GIFT TO GROOMS HOUSE, THAT WAS SOMETHING ACCEPTABLE.

BUT TODAY I T IS GIVEN TO PROVIDE THE WIFE AS A SUPPORT AGAINST THE ILLTREATMENT BY HER IN LAWS

THE ACTS MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE TRADITON OF DOWRY

The Dowry Prohibition (DP) Act

It was introduced and taken up by the Indian law minister Ashoke Kumar Sen, this Act prohibits the request, payment or acceptance of a dowry, as consideration for the marriage where dowry is defined as a gift demanded or given as a precondition for a marriage.

Where the death of the women is caused by any bodily injury or under normal circumstances within seven years of her marriage and it is shown that soon before her death she was subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or any relative of her husband for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry such death shall be called dowry death and such husband or relative shall be deemed to have caused her death

IPC Section 406

This section, for offences related to Criminal Breach of Trust, is usually applied in investigation of stridhan recovery from the husband and his family A civil remedy was brought into the picture in 2005 (amended in 2006). This was called the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.