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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNew Delhi: Sentencing a man to 10 years\u2019 rigorous imprisonment for the dowry death of his wife in 2014, a court said his \u201crapacious conduct and the intense desire to have money\u201d from the woman\u2019s family and the harassment meted out to her led \u201cthe innocent lady to give up her life just within three months of her marriage\u201d.Underscoring the wider social impact of such crimes, additional sessions judge Shunali Gupta observed, \u201cThis offence of dowry death is not an offence only against the individual or her family but an offence to society as parents of every girl remain under fear of the atrocities of in-laws, including husband, if they are unable to meet up their expectations, rather insatiable greed, for dowry.\u201dThe court convicted Prashant Kumar Sinha, accepting the prosecution\u2019s claim that he had subjected Dr Rekha to cruelty over demands for a Volkswagen car and Rs 50 lakh. Married on Dec 12, 2013, Rekha died of aluminium phosphide poisoning on March 6, 2014.Witnesses also alleged a pattern of suspicious deaths linked to the accused\u2019s family, including the death of his second wife in 2022. The conviction was, however, based on the evidence directly related to Rekha\u2019s death.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n