BBC World's award winning current affairs show Correspondent will this weekend examine India's custom of dowry in its feature Dowry Law. The show will have BBC's south Asian reporter Adam Mynott probing into various past incidents of dowry crimes to uncover the issue.

The show will look at the issues of dowry that bother the middle class parents - who are forced to spend a fortune on bikes, fridges, microwaves, cars and large amounts of cash - in order to get their daughters married.

The show will probe into cases of newly-wed women burning to death in stove "accidents" which occur so often. In the process of exposing these issues, Mynott will comes across numerous suspicious cases, including a woman whose husband swears she committed suicide by burning herself to death when he refused to eat the lunch she had cooked.

On the positive side the show will explore Delhi's female crime unit which fights crime against women. The unit, which was recently given the power to make arrests, responds to calls across the city from harassed women.

The show will air on 20 December at 1:40 pm and will be repeated on the same day at 5:40 pm and on 21 December at 8:40 pm.