Letter to the Editor - Epidemiology of Burns among Married Women in India

Homicidal burning of married females is common in India. In India about 20,000 murders are committed every year of which women constitute about 10-15% of the total victims. Jha observed marital disharmony as a root cause for several cases of burns.¹ Sinha observed that many women might have been killed in the villages, but these cases were never reported to the police.² Ahuja in his study of violence against women noticed that the number of female victims of homicide was high in comparison to male victims. ³