Dowry Deaths

'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.

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.