The Kerala Ladies’s Fee has sought a report from the district ladies safety officer on the demand for dowry by the household of a person after the engagement was held.
The potential bride refused to go forward with the marriage after the dowry demand was made, and her household submitted a grievance to the ladies’s fee.
Fee chairperson P. Satheedevi who took up the grievance at a district-level adalat at Jawahar Bal Bhavan, Vellayambalam, on Monday requested the district ladies safety officer to submit a report urgently and take authorized motion on the grievance.
The wedding proposal got here by way of a matrimonial website. Each the households reached an understanding, and the possible bride who was overseas reached the State. It was after the engagement was held that the kin of the person requested for dowry. This resulted within the lady and her household calling off the wedding and approaching the ladies’s fee with a grievance.
Signal of change
It’s a signal of change that girls had been opposing calls for for dowry earlier than the marriage and submitting complaints about it, Ms. Satheedevi stated.
Referring to a current case of suicide by a lady after dowry was sought following the engagement, Ms. Satheedevi stated the ladies had been starting to know that as an alternative of committing suicide if a marriage was referred to as off following dowry calls for, they need to react strongly and lift their voice in opposition to it.
As many as 250 instances had been thought-about on the primary day of the adalat. Plenty of complaints associated to harassment at office had been taken up. Occasion of complainants being remoted and denied their rights had been additionally thought-about. Instances had been additionally being reported from authorities establishments. The fee has given instructions in these instances.
Revealed – November 11, 2024 09:08 pm IST
