Dowry Prohibition Act,Indian law, enacted on May 1, 1961, intended to prevent the giving or receiving of adowry. Under the Dowry Prohibition Act, dowry includes property, goods, or money given by either party to the marriage, by the parents of either party, or by anyone else in connection with the marriage. The Dowry Prohibition Act applies to persons of all religions inIndia.

The act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code were furtheramendedto protect female victims of dowry-related violence. Another layer of legal protection was provided in 2005 under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.

Amendmentsto the original Dowry Prohibition Act also established minimum and maximum punishments for giving and receiving dowry and created a penalty for demanding dowry or advertising offers of money or property in connection with a marriage. The Indian Penal Code was also modified in 1983 to establish specific crimes of dowry-related cruelty, dowry death, and abetment ofsuicide. These enactments punished violence against women by their husbands or their relatives when proof of dowry demands or dowry harassment could be shown.

Despite the revisions, however, the practice of dowry and dowry-related violence still occurs in varying degrees within severalcommunitiesand socioeconomic groups of India

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