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The dark tales of India’s missing girls

By Muhammad Tahir

“We were locked in the room as we watched her burn,” recalls the victim’s daughters in this shocking story of female foeticide and gruesome murder. The dark tales of India's aborted daughters and missing females should be a wake-up call to our government, writes Muhammad Tahir.

Dowry deaths: The institutionalisation of the practice of dowry in India

By Bhaswati Sengupta

The latest National Crime Records Bureau data on dowry deaths is revealing. The Probe’s Bhaswati Sengupta talks to Ankit Mishra, who has been knocking at various doors in Uttar Pradesh to bring his sister’s murderers to justice. Bhaswati reports that the institutionalisation of dowry, coupled with a sluggish justice delivery mechanism, has made the social evil of dowry a socially accepted practice in India.