Dowry murder

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As a dowry death is a kind of dowry crimes mentioned in the wives or daughters with insufficient dowry be murdered. This happens particularly frequently in India , where 7026 women were murdered for this reason in 2005, as well as in Pakistan and Bangladesh . The burning of the bride, which is usually disguised as a kitchen accident, is very common, but women are also poisoned or supposedly died during an operation. The murders are covered by corrupt police officers, bribery hospital staff and forged death certificates. Law enforcement has been slow, with less than 10% of cases being investigated at all. Dowry murders are defined by the Central Government Act "Section 304B of The Indian Penal Code": Any woman who dies an unnatural death after an argument during the first 7 years of marriage is charged with the man as a murderer. The reasons for the dowry murders in India are sought in the materialistically oriented , aspiring middle class. In some cases, the demand for the dowry is subsequently increased after the marriage or the husband tries to get another dowry by remarrying. Divorce happens very rarely in Indian society as it is perceived as shameful. Legally, the Dowry Prohibition Act, which came into force in 1961, prohibits the practice of dowry, but the offenses are rarely punished. In the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations punished dowry murders as a human rights violation . According to the Indian Office for Crime Statistics, 8,233 dowry murders were officially recorded in India in 2012. In their publication India's Repressed Truth, however , the two journalists Georg Blume and Christoph Hein meanwhile speak of hundreds of thousands of bride burnings every year. Most of them are doused with kerosene and set on fire.

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