Dowry death: presumption of causation where dowry-related cruelty precedes a wife's abnormal death; severe mandatory imprisonment. Dowry death treats the death of a woman from burns, bodily injury, or otherwise abnormal circumstances within the early marriage period as caused by the husband or his relative if she had recently been subjected to cruelty or harassment for, or in connection with, a demand for dowry; it adopts the Dowry Prohibition Act definition of dowry and prescribes a mandatory minimum custodial sentence with possible life imprisonment.