2nd Article

16/10/06

Title: "BRIDE GROOM SENT TO JAIL FOR DOWRY DEMANDS"

This is an event that took place in India. In India, there are a lot of bad thing happening to girls because their parents didn't give the dowry that the groom's side asked for. First of all, what is a dowry? Well dowry is any money or goods given to the groom by the bride's family. Down below you can read about an incident that took place in India regarding a dowry problem.

The bride's name is Nisha Sharma. She is a 21 year old computer student. On the day of her marriage, everyone from the bride's side said that the dowry was too much. The groom's side asked for two televisions, two home theater systems, two refrigerators, two air conditioners, 1 car, and 25,000 rupees in cash. They wanted all of these items before the marriage happens. Nisha Sharma was 100% sure that this was ridiculous, so picked up her cell phone and called 100. 100 is the emergency police number kind of like 911 in Canada. In couple of minutes after she had called the police, the groom was put in jail for "dowry demands". After that she became the top news. She was in every single news paper. Every girl said that Nisha Sharma was their role model. Nisha said that she have received calls from over 20-25 people that wanted to marry her from cell phones, emails, and letters after hearing the news.

Sources:

http://web.ebscohost.com/src/pdf?vid=31&hid=108&sid=cecd899a-7af3-425d-8ccf-26d1bd2e27e7%40sessionmgr102