When parents in Bangladesh fail to come up with a promised dowry for their newly married daughters things can get nasty. “He started beating me,” 22-year-old Shopna Rani said of her new husband, just hours before dying of her injuries at a Dhaka hospital: Her parents had reneged on a promise to pay the dowry. According to the Hong Kong-based Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), such cases in Bangladesh are nothing new.
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