Dowry Case
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Bride rejects marriage after groom demands dowry
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Woman gangraped by husband, in-laws; tattooed with expletives over dowry
India | Jun 28, 2016, 03:47 PM ISTa woman was allegedly gangraped by her husband and his two brothers, and was tattooed with abuses on her forehead and hands after her family failed to fulfil their dowry demand.
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Shameful! Husband burns 21-year-old wife with boiling water for dowry
India | May 15, 2016, 07:00 PM ISTA 21-year-old woman was burnt with boiling water by her husband and in-laws in the Old Malda area of Kolkata after she failed to get Rs 50,000 in dowry
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Qualified wife can't sit idle and claim maintenance: Bombay High Court
India | Mar 08, 2015, 03:08 PM ISTMumbai: A family court recently ruled in a petition that a well-qualified woman cannot claim maintenance from her husband.It said that the wife is not entitled to advantage of her own wrong and that she
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Kerala minister Ganesh Kumar resigns after wife alleges domestic violence, Chandy faces political heat
National | Apr 02, 2013, 12:46 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram, Apr 2: In an embarrassment to the ruling Congress-led UDF, forest minister K B Ganesh Kumar was forced to quit after his wife levelled charges of domestic violence, a development that triggered opposition demand
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Raghunath Mohanty removed from post of BJD vice-president
National | Mar 31, 2013, 07:07 AM ISTBhubaneswar, March 31: Hours after being arrestedin a torture for dowry case, former Odisha minister Raghunath Mohanty was on Saturday removed as BJD vice-president.BJD president Naveen Patnaik removed Basta MLA Raghunath Mohanty from the post
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Former Odisha law minister, wife held in dowry case
India | Mar 30, 2013, 01:04 PM ISTBhubaneswar, March 30: Police Saturday arrested former Odisha law minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife Pritilata for allegedly torturing their daughter-in-law for dowry, an official said.The couple was arrested from Kolkata nearly a fortnight after
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Former Odisha law minister, wife held in dowry case
National | Mar 30, 2013, 01:37 PM ISTBhubaneswar/Balasore, Mar 30: After evading police for a fortnight, former Odisha minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife were arrested from West Bengal today and brought to Balasore in a dowry torture case slapped by their
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Dowry torture: Congress women activists court arrest in Odisha
National | Mar 28, 2013, 09:25 AM ISTBhubaneswar, Mar 28: With former Odisha Law minister Raghunath Mohanty refusing to respond the ruling BJD's call for surrender, a large number women Congress activists on Wednesday courted arrest while demanding Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's
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Odisha opposition demands arrest of former law minister Mohanty in dowry case
India | Mar 26, 2013, 08:55 PM ISTBhubaneswar, Mar 26: The main opposition in Odisha today created uproar inside the state assembly and demanded the arrest of former Law Minister and BJD leader Raghunath Mohanty in a dowry harassment case. Mohanty's son
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Bail plea of former Odisha minister's son in dowry case rejected
National | Mar 26, 2013, 07:09 AM ISTBalasore, Mar 26: The bail application of Rajashree Mohanty, son of former Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty, was on Monday rejected for the third time by a court here in a dowry case.The Sub-Divisional Judicial
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Court dismisses former Odisha law minister's plea
National | Mar 21, 2013, 10:35 AM ISTBhubaneswar, March 21: The Odisha High Court has dismissed the petition of former Odisha law minister Raghunath Mohanty seeking quashing of the first information report (FIR) registered against him and his family, alleging torture of
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Dowry case: No interim relief for former Odisha law minister
National | Mar 20, 2013, 09:58 AM ISTCuttack, Mar 20: No interim relief was granted to former law minister Raghunath Mohanty yesterday as a single judge bench of Orissa High Court took up a writ petition filed by him seeking to quash
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Former Odisha minister's son arrested for dowry atrocities on wife
National | Mar 17, 2013, 10:36 AM ISTBalasore, Mar 17: Rajashree Mohanty, son of former Odisha Law and Urban Development Minister Raghunath Mohanty was arrested Saturday night on charge of dowry atrocities committed against his wife.The minister had to resign last week
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Odisha minister quits, daughter-in-law complains of torture
National | Mar 15, 2013, 06:41 PM ISTBhubaneswar, March 15: Raghunath Mohanty, Odisha's minister for housing and urban development, Friday resigned after his daughter-in-law accused him of torturing her for dowry."I have resigned on moral grounds to enable police to conduct an
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Nine Years Later, All Accused Acquitted In Nisha Sharma Dowry Case
India | Mar 01, 2012, 11:08 PM ISTNoida, Mar 1: Nine years after he was arrested for demanding dowry, a local court on Wednesday acquitted Munish Dalal, his mother and aunt in the Nisha Sharma case for lack of evidence. The case