Chandigarh's Dowry Death Crisis: 16 Dead, Just 1 Conviction in 5 Years

16 women died in suspected dowry-related cases over five years in Chandigarh, with victims' families waiting years for justice while perpetrators remain largely unpunished.

In Chandigarh, sixteen women have died under suspected dowry-related circumstances since 2020, yet only one conviction has emerged from the wreckage — a 6.25 percent rate that speaks not to the rarity of the crime but to the fragility of the institutions meant to answer for it. The arithmetic is simple; the failure it reveals is not. Across five years, arrests were made and laws were written, yet trials stalled, witnesses fell silent, and families grew too exhausted to continue — a pattern that places Chandigarh not as an exception but as a reflection of a nationwide crisis of impunity. The qu

Chandigarh's Dowry Death Crisis: 16 Dead, Just 1 Conviction in 5 Years

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