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Marriageable age: Khap meet today for consensus -Deepender Deswal

-The Times of India

ROHTAK: Members of Haryana's sarv khap mahapanchayat would meet in Sonipat on Saturday to discuss rising crimes against women in the state and evolve a consensus on its proposal seeking lowering of the marriageable age to check rapes.

The umbrella body is going ahead with the meeting despite the flak it has drawn over the proposal that former Haryana Om Prakash Chautala has also backed.

Kuldeep Dhanda, a khap leader, defended the suggestion saying it was made "in the prevailing social context as the youth are attaining adulthood at an earlier stage compared to the earlier times''. He said if implemented, it would be just the minimum age and not the mandatory one. "There are a number of youngsters, who get sexually active at early age. So what is wrong in getting them married.''

Sarv khap spokesperson Sube Singh said the role of the mahapanchayat in checking crimes against women will also be discussed at the meeting as they have played a crucial role in controlling crime. "The khaps have no sympathy for the perpetrators of such crime and rapists must be given stern punishment," he said. "The khap leaders are likely to take major decisions to deal with the rising crimes against women.''

He said khap panchayats have limitations, but they want the younger generation to inculcate and abide by good social values.

Haryana education minister Geeta Bhukkal had on Sunday sought their intervention amid a spate of rapes and urged the khap panchayats to give a "befitting reply" to those committing atrocities against women.