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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt panel seeks law to punish ‘honour’ killers by Mahendra K Singh

Govt panel seeks law to punish ‘honour’ killers by Mahendra K Singh

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published Published on Jan 31, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 31, 2012

Concerned over the spate of crimes allegedly for the sake of "honour", a government panel wants a comprehensive standalone law to punish those who kill or harass young couple from exercising their right to choose their partners. 

The recommendation for a comprehensive legislation to stop honour killings stems from the recognition of the absence of specific provisions in the Indian Penal Code, which deal with acts of harassment in the name of "honour". 

The panel, headed by the women and child development secretary, argued that the new law should also provide protection to couples from being charged with false cases of kidnapping and abduction - an allegation that is routinely hurled at couples who choose their own partners. 

The working group of the Planning Commission has also called for measures to deter glorification of those guilty of committing crimes in the name of "honour" or izzat. 

The panel, which has representatives from the ministries of law and home, suggested providing safe homes, where couples could be sheltered if they were facing threat from their families. 

The recommendation of the working group is likely to strengthen the social activists who have long campaigned for a stand-alone law to deter "honour killings". It may also generate political heat, considering the political power enjoyed by khap panchayats in Haryana and western UP. 

The government was forced to take up the issue after outrage over the growing number of 'honour' killings in and around the national Capital last year. Though the issue figures on the government's agenda, there is a dilemma whether it would be a standalone law or the Indian Penal Code or the Criminal Procedure Code be amended. 

"These crimes are also committed through caste or khap or community-based panchayats who issue diktats or fatwas and act like kangaroo courts outside the judicial system," the group noted in its report. 

It pointed out that these panchayats and the girl's family harass and intimidate those, who disobey them by disallowing the couple or the boy's family or anyone who supports them from the village, by declaring a couple brother and sister, by slapping illegal fines and by ostracizing the kin of the bride and the groom.


The Times of India, 31 January, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-panel-seeks-law-to-punish-honour-killers/articleshow/11693531.cms


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