DP Act 8B - Dowry Prohibition Officers Archives - Shades of Knife https://www.shadesofknife.in/tag/dp-act-8b-dowry-prohibition-officers/ True Colors of a Vile Wife Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:38:20 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.shadesofknife.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-1021-32x32.jpg DP Act 8B - Dowry Prohibition Officers Archives - Shades of Knife https://www.shadesofknife.in/tag/dp-act-8b-dowry-prohibition-officers/ 32 32 Are Offices of Dowry Prohibition Officers in AP designated as Police Stations? https://www.shadesofknife.in/are-dowry-prohibition-officers-in-ap-designated-as-police-stations/ https://www.shadesofknife.in/are-dowry-prohibition-officers-in-ap-designated-as-police-stations/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:06:47 +0000 https://www.shadesofknife.in/?p=23484 Continuing from Round-1 litigation here, this page captures the Round-2 litigation efforts. Now that the Respondent #3 in WP(PIL).No. 115/2025 admitted to AP High Court that Dowry Advisory Boards were activated hurriedly from August 2025, the next step was to check if the Dowry Prohibition Officers are actually performing the DPO Activities (specifically the 6 […]

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]]> https://www.shadesofknife.in/are-dowry-prohibition-officers-in-ap-designated-as-police-stations/feed/ 0 Dowry Prohibition Officers of Telangana working? https://www.shadesofknife.in/dowry-prohibition-officers-of-telangana-working/ https://www.shadesofknife.in/dowry-prohibition-officers-of-telangana-working/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:21:56 +0000 https://www.shadesofknife.in/?p=22449 After moving a PIL before AP High Court here, now I chose to approach Telangana High Court with same prayers. As usual, we have the routine drill to file RTIs which was done in 2025 itself! The following are the RTI applications (along with First and Second Appeals) RTI Application to Home Department (Prosecutions) of […]

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]]> https://www.shadesofknife.in/dowry-prohibition-officers-of-telangana-working/feed/ 0 Dowry Prohibition Officers of Andhra Pradesh working? https://www.shadesofknife.in/dowry-prohibition-officers-of-andhra-pradesh-working/ https://www.shadesofknife.in/dowry-prohibition-officers-of-andhra-pradesh-working/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:22:40 +0000 https://www.shadesofknife.in/?p=21614 After failing to make sense of the hypocrisy of Police and Judiciary on the fact that Dowry giving is equally punishable as much as Dowry taking under same section i.e., Section 3 of Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, so I decided to go in a different route. The usual combo of offences that Police add to […]

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