I. INTRODUCTION 1 Mahatma Gandhi once said that ‘Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonors womanhood’. While these words are said, there are still many in the country that abide by the so called ‘tradition’ of dowry. Even though the legislature have enacted various laws to turn this ‘tradition’ into a ‘crime’ that it is, yet the ‘customary practice’ still prevails over everything. Why can’t the people of our country understand that what conceits under the camouflage of ‘tradition’ is actually an evil that has put hardships on women and their families from time immemorial? It is the reason why still the girl child is aborted while the boy child is raised with love in abundance. With enactments of specialized laws and increased awareness, the crime may have subdued but it still stretches its arm time and again to destroy the lives of many women. PROBLEM PROFILE Dowry, as defined in Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 means...