https://thewire.in/caste/caste-honour-killings-cases-laws
A recently published report by the Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network (DHRDNet), in collaboration with the National Council for Women Leaders (NCWL), gets into the granular details of caste-based honour killings from seven states – Haryana, Gujarat, Bihar, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
The case details, collected painstakingly by human rights and anti-caste defenders, working closely with the families of victims on ground, show that there is a discernible rise in the reported cases of “honour killings” in India without legislative or social remedy in hand.
The report looks at 24 cases between 2012 and 2021 and in almost all the cases, the victims/survivors have faced extreme violence from members of the family who opposed the relationship or marriage.
12/04/2023