In India marrying someone outside your caste or religion can be a death sentence. Honor killings are not uncommon in some of the rural areas across India. Although there are no laws that say you must marry within your caste or religion, local rural courts have been known to act...

LIVE MINT /THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Rohtak/Bhiwani: Ravinder Gehlawat and his wife Shilpa had been married for less than four months when they were marched out of their village—Dharana in Jhajjar district of Haryana—by men of the local community and warned never to return. Their fate was sealed on 24...

The Supreme Court on Monday suggested its amicus curiae to devise a strict legal regime to contain honour killings, wherein the focus should be on enforcing prohibitory orders against khap panchayats rather than on securing the arrest of its members that often leads to law and order problems. The SC...

ABRAHAM THOMAS IN THE DAILY PIONEER With State Governments reluctant to deal with the menace of khap panchayats, a two-member Supreme Court-appointed committee has recommended a slew of harsh measures against them. Among others, it has called for terming such gatherings as unlawful assembly and the arrest of members of...

OUTLOOK Two noted advocates, appointed by the Supreme Court to assist it in tackling the malady of “honour killings” of young couples by ‘khap’ panchayats, has recommended a proactive role for the police and district magistrates to curb it. The key recommendation forms part of the guidelines, formulated by senior...