By Rebecca Ruiz (’06), WeNews
September 13, 2006
BANGALORE, India (WOMENSENEWS)–In her three years working at the Basavangudi all-women police station in Bangalore, Constable Mylaaiah Rangajura has taken hundreds of statements of women with dowry-related complaints. Some are freshly bruised, others have been starved for days and some fear that their husbands or in-laws will burn or strangle them to death, a tragically common end to a dowry dispute.

When a wife’s husband and her in-laws are called in for lengthy interviews, Rangajura listens as family members explain and often deny the accusations of abuse and harassment…

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[NOTE: This story came out of the Spring 2006 Covering India course taught by Carolyn Wakeman and The Hindu's Parvathi Menon]