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Dowry has been a vicious problem to the Nepali society since ages. It
dates back to the time when man started living a civilized life.
Originally it was intended to provide support and security to the
newly married couples to initiate their marital lives. It also
signified an alternative to inheritance for women.

With the passing time, its ghastly face surfaced. Of late, parents
spend their entire life under debt to accumulate wealth to offer dowry
for their daughter's marriage; failing of which results in murders,
foul play or worst of it all suicide. Besides these entire factors the
women faces domestic violence on daily basis, leading to psychosocial,
mental and physical problems.

The patriarchal society has given men dominant standing, culturally
regarded as asset whilst women looked down and considered- liability.
Women in our society are exploited thus are ignorant of their rights.
But education has inspired women brace themselves to fight against the
social evil by organizing social and mental set-ups in the Nepali
society. The disparity between men and women must be scraped.

Aristotle remarks, "The development of a country depends on the
development of women." Until women are treated with dignity,
development of nation is unattainable.

Still many women have been burnt up,killed for the name of dowry.Their voice has been stopped before they can raise it up.


Case Study of "Dowry Victim"

Name:- Hasroon Idrasi Address:- Kashgard Tole Nepalgunj-8
Age:- 22 years of age Marital Status:- Married
Husband's name:- Wasim Idrasi Date of event:- 6- November-2007
Victimizers:- Husband, mother-in-law, brother-in-laws and sister-in-law



Hasroon Idrasi, a girl of 22 years of age from Paraspur-6 of Banke District was married four years ago to Wasim Idrasi, a tailor of Indian Nationality, living in Nepalgunj-8. During her marriage her parents had given her enough dowry which they could afford, Hasroon was living a happy married life with one and half year old daughter and three months old son for a year but after her husband and his family members started demanding for money and other expensive things, their married life started getting bitter. Since Hasroon's parents were not economically well off to meet the demands of their son-in-law, their daughter had to directly suffer the torture from her husband and in-laws. She was made to do all the household work and was not given proper food for many days. Her husband had begun threatening that he would marry another woman if his demands were not met and because of this Hasroon was being tortured mentally as well as physically but despite all this she was silently suffering within the four walls of her room.

One day, all her family members got together, sprinkled petrol, pushed her in the toilet where her husband set fire on her. She was left to scream for help with the burning body, it was when her neighbors came to know of this, they rescued and rushed her to the hospital.




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