The Supreme Court, while refusing to grant bail to Mahendra Kumar Gulati – the convict in a bride-burning case, observed that those burning women to death for dowry should be hanged. In view of the fact that hundreds of innocent women are harassed and eventually burnt to death for dowry by husbands and in-laws, the Apex Court order of death punishment for such criminals will act as a deterrent to others.
Islam prohibits dowry. In a Nikah document it is written that the husband would pay Mehr, a sufficient amount to wife and bear all expenses of food, clothing, house, etc. This is why the incidents of dowry death in Muslim society are comparatively much less.
G. Hasnain Kaif
Bhandara, Maharashtra