Yatra Naryastu Pujyante Ramante Tatra Devata is a famous saying in Sanskrit, which translates to ' where women are honored, divinity blossoms there.' Coming to the truth, the saying doesn't suit the situation in our country.

  Only a few women residing in our country have economic independence and the right to choose their job and husband. But there are some places where women face persecution. This has many reasons. Lack of knowledge and family background are the two most common reasons usually seen.

DOWRY DEATHS

  Alongside rape, eve-teasing, female genital mutilation, and acid throwing. Dowry deaths are also considered to be one of the categories of violence against women. 

  Dowry deaths are deaths of married women who are killed (mostly burned) or pushed to suicide by continuous harassment by in-laws for dowry. Dowry is an amount or property offered by the bride's parents to in-laws on their marriage day. Well, these unsatisfied in-laws ask for more money.

  In-laws harass daughter in law for dowry, and if she denies doing so, she is killed. Most of the dowry deaths are though burning alive, and victims mostly pretend the end as stove burst deaths.

HOW ARE DOWRY DEATHS TURNED INTO STOVE BURSTS CASES?

  A Gynecologist at a government hospital states one case amongst dowry deaths victims pretending them as stove bursts. She had many such examples of female infanticides. According to her burns ward looks like hell on the death, where females are more in numbers, the majority of them aged 28 and probably of low-income families. All suffer from severe pains, all in agony. She also mentions that every girl in the ward has the same story to tell - I wanted to cook, I lit the stove and stove burst, saree caught fire. 

 CASE

  According to the Gynac, in that hell kind of ward, there was a woman who was pregnant, she was supposed to be stove burst victim. But her story showed many signs that it wasn't a stove burst; instead, it was a murder dowry death.

  According to the victim's mother, there was no stove in her in-laws' house. As she had four sisters in her maternal home, she was asked to leave her studies and help in household chores and take care of sisters. When she entered her early young age, they fixed her marriage, thinking about what people will say about her image.

  She got married by offering a proper dowry and a grand marriage ceremony, but still, she was illtreated at her in-laws' house; she was beaten, scolded and tortured, etc. for more money. When the daughter used to return at her maternal home, they used to send her back thinking about their other unmarried daughters. 

  Later on, she became pregnant. Everyone in her maternal place was happy that everything will become right now. But unfortunately, her mother in law and her other in-laws came to know that it was a baby girl growing and they decided to kill her by burning alive. She did write a dying declaration, but it was too disposed of by her husband later to not keep any evidence. 

  Soon that patient died in the ward. No case filed, no culprits arrested.

  This has now become a regular thing. This case makes a clear vision that where in India, we worship goddesses, such innocent girls are killed. These are not stove bursts; these are murders full planned murders. Our sisters are burned like camphor showing no mercy. This makes me cry.

  These culprits roam safely on roads with no fear. Only victims suffer and sacrifice their precious lives just for society's greed. Not only in the case of the endowment but also other violence, culprits are set free.

  The case I discussed may too get closed as 'stove bursts.' Even though if anyone takes action against those culprits, they are capable enough to feed lawyers and make their side safe, and if the lawyer denies accepting, the case may drag on for years. 

  Bride burnings show how much women are still devalued. Yes, these are dowry deaths, mostly turned out to be stove bursts.