‘Juroon, Joutuk, Streedhan’: The hidden reality of dowry in Assam

Guwahati/Lakhipur/Mirza: It took two attempts on her life before Sharifa Begum filed a police complaint against her husband. The first time in 2015 he took her to a hill nearby in Lakhipur, where after physically assaulting her, he left her to die with their year-old child. After spending a month in the hospital recovering and two years apart from him, he asked her to come home. “I went back for the sake of my child who hadn’t seen his father for two years,” she said.