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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bride family, not maid

Bride family, not maid

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published Published on May 16, 2013   modified Modified on May 16, 2013
-PTI


A daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not as a maid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has said. The court was expressing concern over instances of brides being tortured in the country.

The apex court made the observations while sentencing a man to five years imprisonment for torturing his wife and abetting her suicide.

The court said a bride must be respected in her matrimonial home as it "reflects the sensitivity of a civilised society".

"A daughter-in-law is to be treated as a member of the family with warmth and affection and not as a stranger .... She should not be treated as a housemaid.

"No impression should be given that she can be thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time," a bench of Justices K. S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said.

"It is a matter of grave concern and shame that brides are burned or otherwise their life-sparks are extinguished by torture, both physical and mental, because of demand of dowry... destroying their desire to live and forcing them to commit suicide, a brutal self-humiliation of life," the bench said.

The apex court was hearing an appeal filed by Gurnaib Singh, challenging his conviction and seven-year jail term awarded by a trial court after his wife's death.

Gurnaib married Amarjeet Kaur in 1996, but soon after the marriage, he and his parents started torturing her for dowry. Two years after marriage, Amarjeet committed suicide by consuming insecticide.

In November 2011, a trial court convicted Gurnaib, his mother and younger brother for killing Amarjeet. The trio then approached Punjab and Haryana High Court which upheld Gurnaib's conviction but acquitted his younger brother. Gurnaib's mother died during the pendency of the appeal in the high court.

Gurnaib then approached the apex court which convicted him of abetment to suicide but acquitted him of murder charges.


The Telegraph, 16 May, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130516/jsp/nation/story_16904459.jsp#.UZSBokrcing


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