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Nisha Sharma dowry complaint is a dowry complaint in India. It began in 2003 when Nisha Sharma accused her future groom, Munish Dalal, by seeking a dowry. This case has been widely reported by India and international media. Nisha Sharma is portrayed as a role model for young idols and other women. After the court ruled that all the defendants are not guilty, the case ended in 2012. The Secretary of Justice stated that Nisha was related to the other person Navneet and said he really wanted to get married.

According to the National Criminal Records Bureau of India, India has the world's number of deaths related to dowry. In 2012, India reported 18,233 deaths of dowry. This means that the bride owes burns every 90 minutes, or the dowry problem causes 1.4 deaths per 100,000 women in India every year. Crime statistics in India are archived on Wayback Machine of Indian government on January 29, 2013. (2011) According to Indian police report in 1996, there were reports of more than 2,500 bridal burns every year. The Indian National Criminal Record Bureau (NCRB) reported that there were about 8,331 cases of deaths due to dowry in India in 2011. The population of India increased by 17.6% over 10 years, while the dowry dowry of 2008 (8172) increased by 14.4% compared to 1998 (7146). The accuracy of these figures has been scrutinized by critics who believe that the number of deaths due to dowry has not been adequately reported.

The lower abdomen of the dowry system will be developed focusing on the treatment of the bride. The act known as "Bride Burning" is to aim and kill the bride whose family can not meet the requirement of the groom's dowry, or to kill it, It is a worrisome custom. The National Criminal Records Bureau reported that there were 8,391 dowry-related deaths in the country alone in 2010 alone. This is nearly twice the number of deaths related to dowry 20 years ago. Only one-third of cases reported have convicted criminals

Dowry is a custom in India where bride's family transfers wealth to the groom, and in many cases this is the marriage requirement and condition of the groom's family. The dowry is in all religious beliefs in India and the number of dowries required by bride's family is related to the age of the girl. Nagi proposed in 1993 that dowry practices avoid the delayed marriage and produce fear and pressure to encourage early marriage. In some parts of India, the existence of Muslim personal law is the cause of child marriage. For example, in Kerala, 3,400 girls aged 13 to 18 married in Malapram district in 2012. Of these, 2,800 are Muslims (82%). The Indian alliance Muslim Federation and other Islamic organizations protested in the court, allegedly tried to stop this practice from the court and that the minimum marriage age of Muslim girls would be challenged by their religious rights .