• Dr. Pankaj Dwivedi
• Soumi Chatterjee

Dowry as a concept has many versions in different countries. Where in some countries the husband give dowry at the time of marriage, in many other countries the bride has to pay her bride price or brides wealth to get marriage. With the change and evolution of time, the cause towards dowry has also evolved from noble in earlier times to abusive in the recent times. India has enforced many anti-dowry laws to eradicate the evil of dowry but at first the parent act, The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 was enforced which was drafted while keeping in mind only to tackle or handle the issue and not to eradicate it from society. As a result the parent act proved to be a failure. The legislators failed to acknowledge the gravity of the ten situation of society in regards to dowry issue and also did not pay much head to the penal provisions which may be tackled the issue of dowry in society in a better way. In this article, the emergence and the various loopholes in the act and the major reasons because of which the Act failed and the crime of dowry accelerated is discussed

Dowry, Dowry Prohibition, Loopholes, Failure etc.

"The Emergence of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and its Failure.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.154-159, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807271.pdf

"The Emergence of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and its Failure.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp154-159, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807271.pdf