Dowry is essentially in the nature of a payment in cash or some kisnd of gifts given to the groom’s family along with the bride and includes cash, jewellery, electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils, vehicles and other household items that help the newlyweds set up their home.The dowry system can put great financial burden on the bride's family.The dowry system in India[1] refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property that the bride's family gives to the groom, his parents and his relatives as a condition of the marriage.

Dowries Maintain Gender Inequality,
Dowries Lead to Infanticide,
Dowries Keep Women From Economic Independence,
Dowries Trap Poor People in Debt,
Dowries Discriminate Against the Disabled.

THE DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT, 1961, (Act No. 28 of 1961). The Indian Penal Code lays down the anti-dowry law with regards to dowry deaths, under Section 304B and cruelty or domestic violence for dowry demands, under Section 498A.

Dowry is a social disease. We PHRC work all over India to eradicate this social disease.