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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court connected Monday awarded beingness imprisonment to a antheral for murdering his woman for dowry, highlighting however parents' anxiousness to prevention the matrimony of their daughters whitethorn propulsion galore women into a decease trap by sending them backmost to matrimonial homes contempt complaints of torture.Amidst increasing fig of dowry cases, apex tribunal began its judgement by throwing unfastened a question for nine to ponder. "Could the beingness of young Soma Acharjee person been saved? Did the fearfulness of societal opprobrium effect successful Soma being thrown to the wolves?" a seat of Justices P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan asked.The tribunal noted that Soma had repeatedly informed her parents astir the harassment she faced, but was sent backmost aft elders attempted to spot up her narration with her husband.Calling the lawsuit an eye-opener, Justice Viswanathan, who penned the judgment, said: "She repeatedly made entreaties to her parents to prevention her and adjacent came to her parental location and stayed with them for a fewer days. However, each clip she raised the issue, efforts were made to effect a patch-up and nonstop her backmost to the matrimonial home."The apical tribunal said colony elders were progressive and resolutions were passed aft purported compromises.
"Soma's adjacent and beloved ones naively believed that someway the concern would crook for the good. A mendacious consciousness of optimism engulfed them. Their hopes were betrayed erstwhile Soma met with a tragic extremity astatine her matrimonial home," it said.Rejecting the husband's plea that Soma had died by termination aft her assemblage was recovered hanging 15 months into the marriage, the tribunal said aesculapian and different grounds intelligibly pointed to execution linked to dowry harassment.It noted grounds connected grounds showed Soma was tortured implicit demands for a motorcycle, TV and different goods, with her parents yielding to immoderate demands."The injuries recovered connected the assemblage of the deceased are not accordant with an mean lawsuit of suicidal hanging," the tribunal observed, adding that the ante mortem injuries were not susceptible of being self-inflicted. The seat said the aesculapian grounds indicated Soma had been subjected to unit earlier her death, thereby negating the mentation of termination and pointing to a lawsuit of "simulated hanging".
