Forced marriages and dowries are still extremely common among rural India, and also in Indian communities in western countries. The laws in those other countries are generally too scared to combat this for fear of anti multiculturalism backlash.
Its akin to FGM in Muslim culture, although that at least is finally getting some opposition. It simply still goes on because people of those cultures believe that such obsolete practices are their 'way of life', and must be continued.
Particularly in the UK, if you try to raise concerns about Indian 'arranged' marriages (they're really forced in most cases), the politically correct apologist crowd simply start defending it with such rhetoric as comparing it to arranged marriages in the royal family. Both these types of 'arranged' marriages are worlds apart in terms of their glamour or appeal to the actual people being 'forced' to marry.
We had a case in my city not too long ago where some Indian guy got up in the middle of the night, stabbed his wife and two daughters dead, and then killed himself. Marriage in Indian culture has zero ties to values such as love or affection, they are instead all about honouring obsolete traditions that for some bizarre reason are strictly upheld among the culture, and although most such people do not want them, they are forced to due to patriarchial dominance and the need to 'respect your parents wishes' and ethnic culture.
Choosing who to marry yourself is an immense 'sin' in such a culture, as is sex before forced marriage. Its the only case I know of and as in the articles I linked where people getting married are at a far higher risk of mental health breakdowns to the point where they can be driven to desires of suicide or murder.