A Muzaffarnagar court awarded death penalty to a man convicted of burning his wife over dowry demands. Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar said he would rather face death than be known as a coward, asserting judicial independence despite alleged threats from criminals
A 26-year-old newlywed woman, Vishakha Tilekar, allegedly died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Ambernath after facing dowry harassment, according to her family’s complaint. Police registered a case against her husband and relatives, arrested her doctor husband, and launched an investigation
