Dowry Law Page #2
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- 2003
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"There is no marriage,
so what are we talking about?"
So you see we have a law,
and we have a caste system,
and we have a Panchayat,
and we have families.
And you have dowry
and it all makes a mess.
And everyone...
I mean you know, it is funny,
but at the same time
it's you know--
a woman has died in this.
And they're saying
she has burnt herself
while boiling milk.
Which is possible, but you know,
only the women are boiling milk
and then they are
burning themselves off like--
The mothers-in-law
do not boiling milk and dying.
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[Adam]
Tihar Jail in Delhi
is the largest prison in Asia.
[]
[Adam]
It's visiting day,
but these women
and their children
are on the wrong side
of the bars.
All are in prison
for dowry crime,
in many cases jailed for setting
their daughters-in-law on fire.
[muttering]
[Adam]
Anjel is the resident
social worker in Tihar.
This block is exclusively
for mothers-in-law,
more than a hundred of them.
The numbers are growing
all the time.
[muttering in distance]
[speaking in Hindi]
Dowry-related death.
[Anjel]
That's right.
So she's been convicted
of killing--
[Anjel]
Yeah.
Her daughter-in-law, yeah.
What's she been accused of?
[speaking in Hindi]
The daughter-in-law died.
[Adam]
How did-- how did she die?
[speaking in Hindi]
[Anjel]
The daughter-in-la
gave the dying declaration
that the in-laws
held her hands, daughter--
sister-in-law put fire to her
and the husband poured kerosene
over her.
But the husband is out,
the rest of the family
is inside the jail.
[Adam]
Dowry crime
was spiraling out of control.
And the government passed laws,
so that anyone
even remotely connected
to the death of a wife
can be thrown in jail.
If a bride dies
of marriage,
her family can file a charge
alleging dowry crime.
All the in-laws
can be imprisoned.
[]
[Adam]
I came across mothers, sisters,
sons, daughters, aunts,
even nieces and nephews,
all behind bars in Tihar.
This is--
[speaking in Hindi]
[Adam]
Some are growing up in jail
simply because
their families are here.
Who's this?
This is the son
of one of the women
who's in the-- who's in the--
this cell?
Yeah.
Her sister-in-law died,
so this is one
of the sisters-in-law, her son.
[Adam]
Yeah.
Raja, Raja, Raja.
[woman speaking in Hindi]
[Adam]
This old woman and her daughter
have done two years
of a 20-year sentence
for murder.
The son wasn't charged.
The women claim
they weren't there
when the daughter-in-law died.
[Anjel]
The daughter-in-law
bolted the door from inside
and put herself on fire.
How is she responsible
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