The cabinet yesterday gave final approval to the revised dowry law suggesting five years of imprisonment for making efforts to implicate one with false charges.

The approval came at the cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

"The new Dowry Prohibition Act, 2018 will replace the existing one framed in 1980," Cabinet Secretary Mohammad ShafiulAlam told a news briefing at the Secretariat after the meeting was held at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

He said the revised Act sought to prevent filing of false cases under the law, also suggesting a penalty for Tk 50,000. "A person may face up to fiveyears of imprisonment or the said amount of penalty or both for filing any false case under the law," he added.

Alam said the cabinet simultaneously proposed slapping of an amount of Tk 50,000 for demanding or giving dowry keeping intact the existing provision of one to five years of imprisonment on the same charge. He said one could face both the jail term and the penalty simultaneously or either of the two.