{"id":49513,"date":"2017-08-22T04:16:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49513"},"modified":"2017-08-22T04:16:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:46:23","slug":"honour-killings-sc-seeks-suggestions-parties-khap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/honour-killings-sc-seeks-suggestions-parties-khap","title":{"rendered":"Honour killings: SC seeks suggestions from parties, &#8216;khap&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49131\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-acquits-employer-rape-case-woman-turns-hostile\/consensual-physical-relations\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?fit=800%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"consensual physical relations\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?fit=640%2C358&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-49131 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Honour killings: SC seeks suggestions from parties, 'khap'\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/consensual-physical-relations.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honour killings: SC seeks suggestions from parties, &#8216;khap&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today sought suggestions from an NGO, an amicus curiae and &#8216;Khap Panchayats&#8217; on ways to prevent harassment and killing of young couples in the name of the family honour for inter-caste or intra-clan (gotra) marriages.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud also asked senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, the amicus curiae (friend of the court) assisting in the matter, to upgrade his suggestions within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The bench asked NGO &#8216;Shakti Vahini&#8217; and others including &#8216;Khap Panchayats&#8217; to file their suggestions and fixed the plea for hearing after four weeks. Khaps are caste or community organisations in villages which at times act as quasi-judicial bodies and pronounce harsh punishments based on regressive and age-old customs and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>The NGO had moved the top court in 2010 seeking directions to the central and state governments to prevent and control honour crimes by taking a number of measures.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the apex court had invited &#8216;Khap Panchayats&#8217; to hear their views before issuing any order to stop them from harassing and killing couples and women in the name of honour.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre had pleaded with the apex court to put in place a mechanism to monitor crimes against women by Khap Panchayats, as the police was not able to protect women facing ordeals at their hands.<\/p>\n<p>The top court had also said that as a pilot project, it would examine the situation in three districts of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh where the Khap Panchayats were active.<\/p>\n<p>It had summoned the Superintendents of Police of Rohtak and Jind districts of Haryana and that of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh to apprise the court of the situation there.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today sought suggestions from an NGO, an amicus curiae and &#8216;Khap Panchayats&#8217; on ways to prevent harassment and killing of young couples in the name of the family honour for inter-caste or intra-clan (gotra) marriages. A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud also asked senior advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,1],"tags":[146,32748,31987,553,282,117,80,47726],"class_list":["post-49513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-criminal-news","tag-featured","tag-honour-killings","tag-khap-panchayats","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Honour killings: SC seeks suggestions from parties, &#039;khap&#039; - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court today sought suggestions from an NGO, an amicus curiae and &#039;Khap Panchayats&#039; on ways to prevent harassment and killing of young couples - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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