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'Papa killed mummy': 4-year-old daughter's drawing serves as proof of mother's murder disguised as suicide

The deceased, identified as Sonali Budholia, was married to Sandeep Budholia, a medical representative, since 2019. Her in-laws informed her family that she had died by suicide, but her daughter, Darshita, provided an account contradicting this claim.
35,493 dowry deaths reported between 2017-21; 20 deaths daily: Govt data

According to data shared by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra in Rajya Sabha, 35,493 dowry deaths were reported in the country between 2017 and 2021.
Dowry Deaths | We urgently need effective societal mechanisms to address marital abuse

Recent cases of dowry deaths of young married women point to the need to have societal redress mechanisms to address the issues of domestic violence
Cultural killings of women have social sanction in India

"Honour" killings, "dowry deaths" and the lynching of women branded as witches persist in India, partly due to such practices being socially sanctioned and with police often not even treating such murders as crimes, says the United Nations.

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Dowry Deaths

'Papa killed mummy': 4-year-old daughter's drawing serves as proof of mother's murder disguised as suicide

35,493 dowry deaths reported between 2017-21; 20 deaths daily: Govt data

Dowry Deaths | We urgently need effective societal mechanisms to address marital abuse

Cultural killings of women have social sanction in India