Indian Middle Class Grows, But Ugly Tradition Persists

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Re: Indian Middle Class Grows, But Ugly Tradition Persists

Very sad. The silver lining is that these incidents are decreasing day by day. It was worse in seventies & eighties.

@Khehkeshan

Pakistan is not the only country dealing with barbaric so called honour killings…here an Indian girl is burned alive because her husband’s family wanted more dowry. How cruel a world we live in?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102900729.html

Indian Middle Class Grows, But Ugly Tradition Persists
A young bride lived long enough to tell authorities that her husband and in-laws had set her on fire for not meeting their dowry demands.

By John Lancaster
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 30, 2005; Page A01

NEW DELHI – Charanpreet Kaur, 19, had been married less than nine months when her husband and his family decided it was time for her to go. Trapping her in the bathroom, her husband clamped his hand over her mouth while his father doused her with kerosene, according to a police document. The father then lit a match, setting his daughter-in-law on fire. She died five days later.

India’s endless dowry wars had claimed another victim.