A PAPER ON LEGAL ASPECTS OF HONOUR KILLING

  • Rahul Vishnoi

Abstract

Societies established in India are multicultural and pluralistic society in which the life of an individual is governed by a lot of values and faith. In a traditional culture women are seen as bearers of the family's dignity. This idea is so well rooted that any effort by females to claim their rights is perceived and vigorously resisted as an assault on the community's societal beliefs. There have been millions of offenses of honour around the nation in contemporary times. It ranges from hundreds of murders, rape and mass murder cases for the sake of defending dignity of particular community. There exist no clear laws on such nature of killings, to prosecute the offenders, some other clauses of legislation are employed. This paper explores the legal aspect and need of proper legislation on honour killing.

Published
2019-11-20
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Articles