STOP HONOUR KILLING
India's social system is based on a caste hierarchy but it is very unfortunate that the caste system in India has turned into social evil for many young people who lost their lives in the name of honour and status. Each and every individual has right to live his or her own life according to their desire.
But for number of families their status and position in the society is so much more important than their children that they do not hesitate or mind killing them just to maintain their status and position. Many such killing are happening with regularity in Punjab ,Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. These are socially sanctioned by caste Panchayat and carried out by mobs with the convenience
what is honour killing:
Honour killing in simple words can be defined as killing of family member by the other family member or by people of same community in order to save on the pride of their family or community .
honour killing is the murder or forced suicide of a person by his or her family or relatives once they have suspicious that the person concerned has done something which has brought disgrace to the family.
It is also referred to as ''customary killing''. honour killing is death sentenced by family or society members to man or women for marrying against parents's wish ,having extra martial or pre- martial affair , marrying outside one's caste or within same gotra etc. in order to protect the social status and honour of the family.
As we all know honour killing have been happening in our society from a long time and despite all the efforts made to stop such killings there are still of lot of people being killed in the name of family honour. The history of the practice of honour killing in India may date back of thousand years . the honour killing practice in modern history seem to have gained momentum since the partition of India in 1947.The tradition was a first viewed most brutal and horrible during 1947 and 1950 when women are forcefully killed to protect the family's honour. A lot of rapes and forced marriage were causing women from India to marry men from Pakistan and vice-versa and when they return home they would be killed so that the family honour is preserved and the family is not declared outcaste.
Thus only one question comes into the mind of all the people ''Is the society or status more important than your children''? when asked all will say that their children are more important but in reality is totally different. Such people can be termed as criminal who are far more dangerous than the terrorist because terrorist kill people who are unknown to them but these people who are killed their own children are heartless.
Reasons of honour killing:
The basic causes for commitment of an honour .killing is the belief that any member of family has brought dishonour to the family. The dishonour can be different types for different families. The perceived dishonour is normally the result of following behaviour or suspicion of such behaviour:
- dress code unacceptable to the family or community
- wanting to terminate or prevent an arranged marriage or desiring to marry by own choice.
- inter-caste or inter-religious marriage
- live in relationship
- homosexuality
- allegation of pre-martial or extra martial sex
The notion of marrying outside one's caste bring dishonour to the family which is responsible for axing their daughters to death by her own father or brother.
Also the most obvious reason for this practice to continue to be at its rigid best and also because people from the rural areas refuses to change their attitude to marriage.
In a horrific case of honour killing in the capital a 21yr old final year student of college in Delhi was allegedly murdered by her family because she had married a boy of anther caste and religion. Bhavana was a yadhav from Rajasthan while abhishek was a Punjabi. The girl was killed after the family persuaded her to come home telling the couple that all was forgiven and that would organise a proper wedding ceremony.
Legal provision regarding honour killing in India :
If we talk about law against honour killing, there is no specific law to deal with honour killing. The murders come under the general categories of homicide or manslaughter. Normally the case of honour killing were admitted inside the court in India in form of homicide or manslaughter .
The law commission has proposed fresh legislation that seeks to declare that the khap pancyats indulging in this crimes be declared unlawful. it proposed a new bill.
The Prohibition of unlawful assembly (interference with the freedom of matrimonial alliance) bill 2011, propose no person or any group of person shall gather with an intention to deliberate on or condemn any marriage, not prohibited by law, on the basis of that such marriage has dishonoured the caste or community tradition. the law commission has recommend that honour killing be made a non- Bailable offence.
In a landmark judgement in march 2010 the Karnal district court ordered that the execution of 5 perpetrators in an honour killing case of Manoj and Babli while giving a life sentence to the Khap (local caste based council) head who ordered the killing of Manoj Banwala (23) and Babli(19) which eloped and married in June 2007 and later their mutilated bodies were found a week later from an irrigation canal
The S.C observed that if some one is not happy with the behaviour of his daughter or other persons the maximum one can do is to cut off social relation with her or him ,'' there is nothing honourable in honour killing''.
Now the most important issues here is now we can stop these evils things to happen in future or what necessary are needed to put an end to honour killing.
what we can do to prevent such a thing from happening :
- The mentality of the people has to change ,that the parents should accept their children's wishes regarding marriages
- Secondly we need to have strict law to tackle these kinds of killing as this is a crime which cannot be pardoned because humans do not have the right to write down death sentence of innocent fellows humans.
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