Dowry Deaths and Access to Justice

Abstract

This study seeks to keep alive the struggle for justice by recapturing the process involved in three cases WARLAW [1]has conducted in the courts. It records the battles within and outside the courts in the hope that these will provide a meaningful understanding of the dynamics of the legal process. In doing this we are aware that these efforts are mere drops in the ocean and can provide little solace for those whose lives have been extinguished. If it provides introspection on the inadequacies of the judicial method and enables us to construct a feminist theory which would have some impact on the aspiration of women for justice it will have served a useful purpose.