Kerala Women's Commission submits proposals to government to check dowry harassment and ostentatious weddings
The Hindu
Regulating ostentatious weddings and giving bride rights over gold and gifts she receives during wedding are some of the proposals on the anvil to check the menace, points out M. C. Josephine, chairperson of Kerala Women's Commission
Giving women the rights over the gold and gifts she receives at the time of her wedding and regulating expensive weddings through law figure among the proposals to be submitted by the Kerala State Women’s Commission before the Kerala government to check dowry harassment and ostentatious weddings. The move comes close on the heels of the public outrage over the death of 24-year-old woman, who was found hanging at her in-laws' house in Kollam on Monday, in a suspected case of death related to dowry harassment. Her husband was arrested and slapped with charges under sections 498A (subjecting a woman to cruelty for dowry) and 304B (dowry death). "Regulating ostentatious weddings and giving bride the rights over the gold and gifts she receives at the time of her wedding are some of the proposals on the anvil to check the menace of dowry harassment and lavish weddings in the State," pointed out M. C. Josephine, chairperson of the Kerala State Women's Commission.More Related News