Devi’s mother-in-law holds the body of her grand-daughter who was also burned to death in the attack

“8,233 young women, many of them new brides,  were killed in so-called ‘dowry deaths’ in 2012,’ the report said last  year.”

(Daily Mail) Mr Rana told police: ‘They wanted a son, but didn’t realize that giving birth to a girl was not Devi’s fault.’They started harassing and torturing her till things reached this pass when they decided to end her life.’Mr Rana added: ‘Now they were demanding a TV set and a motorcycle. I had already given them two bighas (1.6 acres) of land in dowry.’To pass off her murder as an accident, the accused made the badly burned Devi sit beside a fireplace and placed a water container over it.Early in the morning on January 30, a local spotted Ms Devi and her daughter lying in a courtyard at the house, still alive despite suffering 90 per cent burns.The mother-daughter duo were rushed to the nearest hospital but the doctors declared them dead on arrival.

Full Article Young Indian mother and her baby daughter burned to death for failing to pay her new family dowry | Mail Online.

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