Khap Panchayat Diktat

The Maharashtra government has framed rules to prevent honour killings, 'khap panchayat' diktats, mob lynching as well as violence, and asked the Director General of Police to apprise personnel across the state force of their implementation.

The Supreme Court today said that Khap panchayats' diktat on dress code for women and asking them not to carry mobile is unlawful.

A young girl in a salwar kameez, not yet out of her teens, stands before a group of peers and denounces jeans and other western wear as provocative. Others join in, explaining how wearing such clothes is an invitation to lewd comments from boys. In UP's Muzaffarnagar, the Khaps seem to have had their way. These young girls were speaking at meeting...

"Kill them if you see them" - this is the latest diktat of a khap panchayat in a village in Greater Noida, just outside Delhi.Their target - a couple in their mid twenties - their love flouted caste boundaries prescribed by village elders and saw a Dalit boy eloping with a Brahmin girl.Sanjay and Preeti studied in the same school and lived in adjoi...

The Maharashtra government has framed rules to prevent honour killings, 'khap panchayat' diktats, mob lynching as well as violence, and asked the Director General of Police to apprise personnel across the state force of their implementation.

The Supreme Court today said that Khap panchayats' diktat on dress code for women and asking them not to carry mobile is unlawful.

A young girl in a salwar kameez, not yet out of her teens, stands before a group of peers and denounces jeans and other western wear as provocative. Others join in, explaining how wearing such clothes is an invitation to lewd comments from boys. In UP's Muzaffarnagar, the Khaps seem to have had their way. These young girls were speaking at meeting...

"Kill them if you see them" - this is the latest diktat of a khap panchayat in a village in Greater Noida, just outside Delhi.Their target - a couple in their mid twenties - their love flouted caste boundaries prescribed by village elders and saw a Dalit boy eloping with a Brahmin girl.Sanjay and Preeti studied in the same school and lived in adjoi...