Grade Level: Coll-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: |
Running Time: 45 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 2003
Available in French: No
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It's wedding season in India and all over the country the booming middle class is spending a fortune on dowries - bikes, fridges, microwaves, cars and large amounts of cash - all in the attempt to find a suitable husband. It can cost up to $100,000 for a family in India to find a groom for their daughter. It's resulting in the return of dowry crime; the aim - to get the money and get rid of the wife as soon as possible. India has even built a special jail block in Delhi for mothers-in-law accused of killing their daughters. Correspondent joins Delhi's female crime unit in the fight against dowry crime. We come across case after case - including a woman whose husband swears she committed suicide by burning herself to death when he refused to eat the lunch she'd cooked. But women are fighting back - in one case a young doctor died a week after she moved in with her in-laws, what happened? Her parents and a leading feminist take the fight to the police and the program confronts her husband and in-laws in an attempt to find how she died. |
