We actually hear this all the time, if you deny this then you are betraying yourself. The case of Tanvinder Kaur which actually gave us a law for dowry, a more specific one. The one terrible case which had all the other stories to speak with it. That year saw 300 burnt daughters alive that were reported. Parents crying over their dead daughters burnt body, in-laws bribing the constables to not file report. This is about the status marriages which starts with a contract of goods to be transferred by the Bride's family and soon becomes the dowry case.