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What happened to Satyarani’s daughter?

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Hint:Satya Rani Chadha was a women's rights activist. She is ideal for women who suffer in their life because of dowry. She is known for her Anti-Dowry movement launched in the 1980s. The Anti-Dowry movement started with two women's first is Satya Rani Chadha and the Second is Shahjahan Apa.

Complete answer:
Satyarani’s daughter named Shashi Bala (second name Kanchan Bala) when she was 20 years old died of severe burn injuries while at home, a victim of a bride burning in 1979. She had been married for less than a year and was 6 months pregnant at the time of her death.
Her in-laws were demanding several things a scooter, a television, and a refrigerator, etc, Satyarani tried her best to get their demands to be fulfilled but she failed to do so as somehow she had arranged the money for the television and refrigerator but unable to arrange the money for scooter, Even so, two days before her daughter's death, Chadha's son-in-law, Subhash Chandra, warned her of the horrible result if the demand for the rest of the dowry (the scooter) was not met. He refused involvement with the death, but suspecting her daughter was killed due to the partly unfulfilled dowry request, as a result, the in-laws burnt her innocent child.
The police dismissed to gather basic evidence and charged Chandra not with murder, but under the Dowry Prohibition Act. This led the Supreme Court to rule in 1980 that because Chandra's demands for a scooter came ten months after the marriage, it could not be connected to the death.

Note:Chadha continued to pursue a suit for murder, but it took until 2000 for the case to be heard in court. Chandra was eventually convicted of the lesser charge of abetting suicide in 2000. On appeal, his conviction was upheld in 2013 and was ordered to serve a seven-year sentence.