Indian woman burned with boiling oil for not providing dowry

Woman alleges her in-laws beat her for not bringing Rs 10,000 from her parents and then put her hands in boiling oil

An Indian woman’s hands were allegedly burnt with boiling water on Thursday by her in-laws for not providing dowry in Maharashtra, Indian police reported.

"They beat me for not bringing INR10,000 from my parents and then put my hands in boiling oil," Karuna Waghmare told reporters from her hospital bed.



The woman who belonged to a village in Kej tehsil accused her husband, father-in-law, brother-in-law and sisters-in-law for putting her hands in boiling oil. She has been admitted to the government hospital in Beed with severe burns, according to the police.

"My husband forcibly put one hand in boiling oil and my sisters-in-law poured boiling oil on my other hand," Waghmare said.

A police official said told PTI, "We have deputed our team to take a statement of the woman and other relatives."

However, no arrests have been made so far, the police added.

Earlier in April, a man in Charsadda gunned down his former fiancee and nine of her relatives Sunday, police said, six months after murdering his own parents and two brothers for refusing to pay his dowry.



The 25-year-old suspect, whom police named as Mir Ahmad Shah, was on the run after carrying out the pre-dawn attack with an AK-47 assault rifle in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

“He stormed the house and killed all ten family members while they were asleep,” district police chief Shafiullah Khan told AFP, adding that two children and four women were among the dead.

Khan said Shah was a fugitive wanted for the murder of his parents and two elder brothers last year. His family had refused to accept a demand by the father of his then-fiancee for a residential plot as a dowry settlement.

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post