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Vikram Deo Singh Tomar v. State of Bihar, 2 August 1988.
In response to a complaint about the conditions of the public Care Home, the Supreme Court of India ordered the state government of Bihar to take immediate steps for the welfare of women and children living in the home. It directed the state to provide suitable alternative accommodation for housing the inmates of the home; to renovate the home; and to provide adequate water and electricity, a suitable range of furniture, adequate clothing, blankets, and sheets, as well as soap, oil, and other toilet requisites. It also ordered a Superintendent to be appointed and a doctor to visit the home daily. It commented that the "right to live with human dignity is the fundamental right of every Indian citizen" and that the State must abide by "constitutional standards" and provide "at least the minimum conditions ensuring human dignity."
Rezaul Karim v. Mst. Taslima Begum, 3 May 1987.
The petitioner had been arrested under the Bangladesh Dowry Prohibition Act, 1980, after he refused to take Mst. Taslima Begum, whom he had married under Moslem shariat, to his home unless her family paid him Tk. 10,000 in return. At the beginning of the marriage, Mst. Taslima Begum had lived at the home of her father and was visited there often by the petitioner as husband, with the result that she conceived and gave birth to a child. The petitioner demanded that the proceeding be quashed, arguing that the demand for money did not come within the definition of dowry under the Act, that is, demanding money in consideration for marriage. The Court disagreed, holding that the demand for money by a husband after marriage in exchange for giving the wife the status of a wife, maintaining and supporting her as a wife, and providing her with shelter as a wife amounts to a demand for dowry.