In India, a mother and daughter where burned while they slept over a marriage payment dispute. Bride burning and dowry murders are common place when demands are not met by the wife’s family. Click below for more info
An Indian woman has died and her 13-month-old daughter suffered horrendous burns after her husband and father-in-law set them on fire as they slept, in a dispute over a dowry payment.
The case has shocked India, a country where people have become use to reports of bride burnings and dowry murders – there are more than 8,000 women killed every year because their husbands’ and in-laws’ demands for lavish dowry payments are not met.
What is particularly alarming is the attempted murder of a daughter and grand-daughter whose first birthday they had celebrated just weeks earlier.
In Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital, 13-month-old Idika’s eyes peer fearfully out from her heavily bandaged face as she fights for her life, after suffering 55 percent burns.
Her mother Pravartika Gupta, a 25 year-old technology graduate, died in the hospital on Sunday shortly after making a statement to a magistrate.
