Shefali, a sweet girl of 16 was married off when she was reading in class 8. came of a poor family of a remote village. Her father lives from hand to mouth. Her mother is a house wife. She has two elder sisters and one younger brother. Her sisters have already been married off. With the growth of Shefali's age, her parents became worried about her marriage. To procure a husband for She illiterate their younger daughter, they managed taka 25000/ - by selling a part of their housing plot. One day, the girl was married off with a young man of 26, provided that the groom would be paid taka 20,000/- as dowry and fifty percent of which was to be paid in advance. Accordingly, everything was arranged. But alas! The marriage proved unhappy. His husband did not love Shefali. Moreover, she was being tortured by her in-laws. They began to charge her that the condition of dowry had not been fulfilled. A portion of the promised amount of dowry was unpaid. It was reported that the matchmaker exploited them. However, Shefali's father was quite unable to manage the amount again. This is why; the girl was taken back and finally divorced.
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