"Honour Killing" A Feud

"Honour killing" or "Honor killing" is one of the hotest news from a last few days. It is staggering, that Honor killing is still a wrangle in country like India. I felt peeved whenever, I read the news of Honour killing in newspaper.

Honor killing is the murder of the family or family member which brought dishonor to family or community by fellow family or community members.The dishonor may be due to refusing to enter in the arranged marriage, seeking for divorce, engaged in relationship with other person.

People are still murdered across the India daring to marry without their family's acceptance, in some cases for marring outside the caste or religion. The marriages with 'untouchable' caste male/female instigate the killing of married couple or the family of that couple. This is the unique form of killing related to the practice of 'untouchability'. In India states like Haryana, Bihar, U.P. are know for these kind of notorious incidents. These killing results from the perception to bring the honor back to the family or the community.

To stop these kind of notorious activities there must be some strict steps taken by government. There should be some kind of rigorous punishment impose to the convicts like Haryana court did two days back. I admire the judgement of the court in which it awarded capital punishment to five convicts and life sentence to one for mudering the couple.