SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Dowry is a payment of cash or gifts from the bride’s family to the bridegroom’s family upon marriage. It may include cash, jewelry, electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils, car and other household items that help the newlyweds set up their home. Dowry has no religious sanction in Hinduism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bride and Groom Gift Exchange It has become customary for brides and grooms to exchange gifts and vows and rings when they get married. While it is considered an “optional tradition", this type of sentimental gift exchange between couples on their wedding day is becoming increasingly popular.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dowry is anything which has value (such as cash and property) which is given by the bride’s family to the groom’s family as a condition of marriage. 1. The law does not stop the exchange of gifts with the fiance’s family during the wedding. The purpose of this law is to prohibit coercion during the gift exchange.