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2What is honor killing ?

Honor killing is the homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members

Due to the belief of the perpetrators that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community

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3Origin of “Honor Killing”

Dates back to ancient Rome and was encouraged in China and Egypt

In ancient Rome being raped was seen as dishonorable to the point of destroying women’s life and reputation and honor killing is considered as “MERCIFUL” act

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4Why Honour killing, not a murder?

In Indian societies, a women is considered to reflect her family’s honour.

The parents also hove the belief that they have a right to kill their child as they have given birth to them, so it should be legitimate and different from murder


5Probable reasons for honour killings

Wanting to terminate or prevent a love marriage or desiring to marry by own choice

Engaging in certain sexual acts, including those with the opposite or same sex

Huge caste based discriminations and stratification of the society


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Chart showing numbers of people out of 120, who believe the reasons for honour killing in their state are these. Other reasons include, families of different beliefs, love marriage and illiteracy

Reasons for Honour killing


7Honor Killing in INDIA

Honor killing is mostly practiced in the parts of Uttarakhand,Punjab Rajasthan,Haryana,Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

In contrast are rare to non existent in South India and Western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat


8Facts from surveys

According to Delhi-based INDIAN POPULATION STATISTICS SURVEY (IPSS)In mid-2007 almost 655 homicidal cases has been registered as HONOR KILLING in INDIA


9Percentage of various reasons

The various reasons for honour killing in the world wide


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11Analysis and storiesNORTH INDIA

HARYANA and PUNJAB People of Haryana and Punjab have generally

stressed that the main reason for honour killing is marriage of people in the same village or the gotra and also inter-cast and inter religious marriage


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1. A case has been posted by one of them which goes as follows

“There is a village nearby my city where an SC guy married an GEN girl. First they eloped for almost an year. Then when they returned with a child, the khap panchayats allegedly made them brother and sister and the baby was given to the old parents of the boy. This was not the end ,later the guy was murdered and then the girl hanged herself, so only thing which was destroyed was the future of a child. Their family was disturbed always ,their social connection (of the boy's family) was cut, all their land holdings were sealed. The Haryana govt. wont take actions because the old royal and rich family members are the members of khap panchayats."


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UTTAR PRADESH

Story by one of the UP resident:“This case happened in my village. Female was eloped by male and they got married to each other. They belonged to different castes. But case was different because boy’s family got the girl gang-raped by goons and girls family filed a case against the boys family and also killed the boy. Again boys family filed the case against the girls family.”


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ANDHRA PRADESH

A story from a resident is as follows:“A Rich business man who belongs to a higher caste has a daughter who fell in love with a poor school teacher's son belonging to a lowly caste, the Rich man came to know about this when his daughter is talking to her lover in a park. Then rich man sent rowdies to poor man's house and threatened the parents. as the daughter is in deep love with poor man, the rich man Killed the poor boy and married his daughter to a NRI. This is the story of Ananthapuram in Andhra Pradesh”

SOUTH INDIA


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Currently there is no special law mentioning the term “Honour Killing” in IPC.

There are also no laws which punish the illegal and often barbaric actions of the Khap or community panchayats or other caste or religious association

Honour killings and judiciary:


16Actions against honour killingState & year case name Culprits(relatio

n with victim)Court’s decision

Haryana, 2007 Manoj-Babji (both murdered)

Girl’s brothers Life sentence(2010)

U.P.,2011 Baburam case (only girl killied)

Girl’s father Pending

Punjab, 2009 Gurpreet Singh (boy murdered)

4 relatives of girl Death sentence

Tamilnadu, 2009 Sripriya (girl murdered)

Father & 2 cousins

Hearing going on

U.P.,2011 Zahida & Husna (both girls were murdered)

Mothers of both the girls

Life sentence


17Statistical graph

During these years in India registered honor killing cases in reducing gradually

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The draft bill intends to add a clause to Section 300 of the IPC.

Section 300 deals with the crime of murder, the maximum punishment for which is death and/or a fine.

It also wants to amend the Indian Evidence Act and the Special Marriages Act, 1954, which would do away with the provision for the mandatory 30 days notice period for marriages intended to be solemnized under this Act.

The Preventionof Crimes in the Name of ‘Honour’ & Tradition Bill, 2010


19What is “khap”?


20Statistics

Chart showing the percentage of people who agree or disagree with KHAP PANCHAYAT’S petition to make honor killing legitimate


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22 CEDAWconvention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women

CEDAW is the most comprehensive women’s rights treaty in the world

Ratified in 1981 and has support of 186 nations

Mandates countries to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, including discriminatory customs or religious practices


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NIRUPAMA PATHAK ,a 22 year old journalist ,reportedly 3 months pregnant were allegedly killed by their family near their family near their family home Jharkhand on last week of April 2010 because of falling in love with a lower caste boy

Victims


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In shivganga district of South India state ,Tamilnadu a 20 year old girl megala and a 24 year old boy shivkumar were killed by megala’s father and brother after being traced out when they eloped out after ten days of the marriage of megala with another one


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26Conclusion

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