Honour Killing In India

India is a country whose folks talk about everything more, less and least essential. We talk about development, we talk about digitalisation and we talk of modernity or novelty but we fail to talk of humanity. The fact that India alone has witnessed an about 800% rise in the cases of honour killings from 2014-2015 is pretty much enough for us to realise how far we stand from being an actually developed, digitalised, modern and novel society.

The cases of honour killings are most prominently being reported in Central and North western India. Incidents have often been witnessed where the girl on marrying against the wishes of her family is bound to face the inhumanity at large. In a society where we talk of breakthroughs, we can’t afford to disregard such social loopholes. We should be willing to bestow certain legal and uninterrupted liberties to the members of the society, particularly females. Marrying averse to the wishes of the family may be a matter of disdain for the family but not absolutely the matter suitable enough to be expounded through violence. This is sad!

In certain regions of Uttar Pradesh, incidents have been reported where the couple who married without the concurrence of the family members have been made to roam naked round the village! What else could be more inhuman?A couple was brutally hacked to death with an axe allegedly by the family members of the woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district.

Most cases go unreported or registered as crimes under murder. India doesn’t have a specific law to deal with honour killing, forcing law-enforcement agencies to charge suspects under separate provisions of the IPC depending on the scale of a crime is currently the one and only way out to tackle this social chink and literacy and educating the masses is a far way out.