Khap Panchyat

A khap panchyat of Rager community in Bundi district near Kota today allegedly outcast the four women and their family members for performing the last rites of their father, who had no son to shoulder his bier.

Amid a simmering row between the Delhi government and its bureaucrats, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday shot off a terse letter to Lt Governor Anil Baijal, equating the IAS officers' association with a "khaap panchyat", and attacked him for "backing" its "fatwa" to boycott official meetings with AAP ministers.

A Khap Panchayat or caste council in Madhi village in Uttar Pradesh allegedly stripped a woman, blackened her face and beat her for helping young couple to elope. The woman's son who tried to intervene and protect his mother was also beaten up. "They removed my clothes and beat me with a baton. They were drunk. Then four people called a panchayat...

A khap panchyat of Rager community in Bundi district near Kota today allegedly outcast the four women and their family members for performing the last rites of their father, who had no son to shoulder his bier.

Amid a simmering row between the Delhi government and its bureaucrats, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday shot off a terse letter to Lt Governor Anil Baijal, equating the IAS officers' association with a "khaap panchyat", and attacked him for "backing" its "fatwa" to boycott official meetings with AAP ministers.

A Khap Panchayat or caste council in Madhi village in Uttar Pradesh allegedly stripped a woman, blackened her face and beat her for helping young couple to elope. The woman's son who tried to intervene and protect his mother was also beaten up. "They removed my clothes and beat me with a baton. They were drunk. Then four people called a panchayat...