It was close to New Year’s back in 2012 in the outskirts of Mumbai. Twenty-two-year-old Bhumi (name changed), just a day shy of completing eight months of her pregnancy, was cooking in the kitchen when she felt something wet coat her back.

“I turned around and my husband was standing over me. Before I could react, he lit a match,” Bhumi recounts over a phone call. As she screamed out in pain, her husband, mother-in-law, and father-in-law allegedly backed away and watched. “I felt like I had been screaming for a long time before the neighbours came in and put out the fire on my body,” she says.

Just a little over a year prior to this, in May 2011, Bhumi’s family had paid for the entire wedding, as well as gifts for both sides of the wedding party, and also rented the bus to ferry family members to and from the venue. The problems began when the groom’s wanted more money.