The Killer Dowry

Once upon a time 23 kilometre near Somgarh, a village in Arunachal Pradesh was a small village named Parigarh, the name may be felt simple but the incident that took was unbelievable and mysterious.

According to old books and description by people like priests and archaeologists, a deadly story takes place in front of us.

According to them, 50 years back, it was a very happy place with lots of people living there. Living happily among them were two lovers Shanti and Shakhil who loved each other a lot but Shakhil's parents wanted Dowry and Shanti's parents were too poor to pay any dowry but going against his parents, Shakhil married Shanti and both lived happily but Shakil's mother blackmailed Shanti's parents for Dowry which they could not bear and they committed suicide which hurt Shanti a lot. She started hating Shakil's parents but after two years of her marriage, Shakil's parents killed Shanti too. Shakill was innocent but he couldn't do anything against his parents, so his parents got him re-married and got a good sum of Dowry.

After two months of their marriage, on Diwali night, that was 23 october 1964, all members of Shakil's family were happily celebrating Diwali except Shakil who was missing Shanti and was requesting god to send her back. Suddenly a voice was heard from inside the house, when everyone went in, they found nothing but in the room there was a photo of Shanti with garland hung on the wall which was vibrating vigorously, suddenly the garland fell from the frame of photo on the candles lighted under the photo and the garland started burning and without any source or spark the photo of Shanti hung also started burning and both garland and photo fell on the floor. Everyone was frightened and confused, at that time suddenly a shadow was seen flying off from the burning photo and garland and all the gates and windows shattered with a large sound. All were stuck in there and were asking for help. At that very moment, big knife from somewhere came and went through Shakil's second wife which led to her death. The knife was stuck on the wall, Shakil's father examined the knife, on it was written "he is mine" then when his father left the knife, he was pulled out of a door which suddenly opened and was thrown on the door with spikes and he died, all went out of from the house through that door but Shakil didn't; he was neither happy nor sad rather confused to see this incident.

Suddenly a voice was heard from the house "mother in law, now you will be seen my love, you want dowry, ok now I'll give you, you just wait and watch " on hearing these words from somewhere, Shakil's mother started apologizing asking Shanti to forgive ,then suddenly fog spread all over, the black clouds covered the whole sky. Suddenly some clouds came together and took a perfect shape of a lady to which everyone identified and said "Shanti", she was wearing white saree and was very angry with everyone and then she held Shakil's mother by her hand and threw her towards the room where there was a sum of the dowry and the whole cash and jewellery was kept. She started talking to everyone and said "yes I am Shanti, Shakil's wife whom this old lady and her husband killed for dowry. I loved Shakil lot but she in her greed separated us, listen if from now in this village if any family asks for dowry then I will come back and do the same with them" on completing this, she waived her hand towards the house and the house caught fire which led to burning of Shakil's mother with the money.

Then Shanti came down to Shakil and asked him to stay happy after her. She will be happy only if he will be happy and asked him to go to her house and get married to her helpless sister Shivani and live a happy life, after this Shivani and Shakil married, today after 50 years Shakil and Shivani are happy grandparents and live a happy life together but Shakil still Misses Shanti and taking of dowry is completely abolished from that village