6.2 Dowry

The practice: the marriage's transaction — the gifts'-and-demands' economy (the bride's family's payments); the Terai's intensity (the practice's regional face) + the escalation (the inflation's sociology — the wedding's economics). The law's line: the historical statutes (the Social Practice Reform Act 2033's faces) → the Muluki Criminal Code 2074's dowry offences: the demand's prohibition (the giving-taking-and-demanding — the transaction's criminalisation); the dowry- violence's aggravated offences (the harassment-and-the-death faces — the burns'-and- poisoning's lore: the autopsy's differential — the accident-vs-murder's medical-legal question); the dowry's recovery (the property's return to the wife — the civil face). The audit: the practice's persistence despite the prohibition (the law-vs-culture's gap); the enforcement's record (the complaints' rarity; the family's complicity — the bride's own family's involvement); the campaign's-and-awareness's role (the honest multi-prong point).