The Court further observed that compelling a married woman to live in her parental home on account of non-fulfillment of demand of dowry would also amount to mental harassment.
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The high court was dealing with a case of dowry death of a woman after being allegedly harassed by her husband and in-laws for bringing insufficient dowry and giving birth to two daughters
Dr. Shahana, a postgraduate surgery student at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, recently took her own life because of her family's inability to fulfill purportedly excessive dowry requests made by Ruvais .