This story is from July 16, 2020

Rajasthan: Man sent to life in jail for dowry death

Rajasthan: Man sent to life in jail for dowry death
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KOTA: The additional district judge (ADJ) court in Bhawanimandi of Jhalawar district on Wednesday awarded life term in jail to a 24-year-old man for dowry death besides imposing a fine of Rs 10,000.
Shiv Puri, a resident of Chan Ka Kheda village under Dug police station area of Jhalawar district, was sentenced to life in jail for dowry death of his wife identified as Maya Goswami (20), a native of Agar Malwa district in Madhya Pradesh, additional public prosecutor, ADJ court, Lokesh Gupta said.

Maya was married to Shiv Puri on February 16, 2016 and soon after that the husband had been harassing, torturing and thrashing Maya for dowry, the APP said. After more than a year of marriage, Maya was brought dead to a local hospital under suspicious condition with marks of strangulation around her neck on January 31, 2017, he added.
On a report by her mother, police lodged a case of dowry death under Section 304B against Shiv Puri and initiated an investigation. The mother in the report alleged that her son-in-law had been constantly thrashing, harassing and torturing her daughter for dowry since her marriage, he added. ADJ court judge Dr Prabhat Agarwal, following trial in the matter, held Shiv Puri guilty under Section 304B and convicted him life term in jail.
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