Poll Vote & Share your view Would you support initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality to combat dowry? Soon after the marriage, her husband and in-laws allegedly began subjecting her to physical and mental cruelty while demanding dowry.Circle Officer (Doiwala) Vandana Verma said the family regularly humiliated Shristi by calling her "inauspicious" and "unlucky". "They socially humiliated her, claiming that misfortunes began after her arrival. They found Shristi in a critical condition at a local hospital. By the time her mother reached Dehradun from Srinagar in Garhwal, Shristi had died during treatment.