{"id":116154,"date":"2021-07-02T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=116154"},"modified":"2021-07-02T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:55:51","slug":"the-dowry-prohibition-act-1961","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-dowry-prohibition-act-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This Act extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li>This Act prohibits the practice of giving or taking dowry by either party to a marriage. This law also punishes demanding and advertising dowry.<\/li>\n<li>The more serious crimes in relation to dowry, such as dowry death and cruelty from dowry demands are punishable under the general law on crimes \u2013 the Indian Penal Code, 1860.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Act extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. This Act prohibits the practice of giving or taking dowry by either party to a marriage. This law also punishes demanding and advertising dowry. The more serious crimes in relation to dowry, such as dowry death and cruelty from dowry&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-dowry-prohibition-act-1961\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}