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15 days before marriage date stopped by groom by demanding dowry


09-Nov-2023 (In Criminal Law)
I am girl, got engaged with a government employee. 3 months gap is there for the marriage, so his mother brought aligations and made plans to break the marriage, in this process they recorded my father frustrating words regarding her disinterest in marriage.They kept this as an evidence to break the engagement.Before 15 days of marriage groom called my dad and demanded 10 lakhs for grand marriage.My father said he can afford only 3 lakhs, so they called off the marriage. But he used to talk with me but his parents said we are not going to do this marriage.so I recorded the conference of his mother and him by being in conference call.His mother used abbusive words about me.Now how to proceed legally.
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you can file a case of cheating and demand of dowry against the boy and his mother at the nearest woman police station and also submit call records as proof for demand for dowry. since your father was frustrated by the exorbitant demand, his statements will rather be taken as voice of a common man who is a victim of extortion in guise of dowry
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