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 father of a rape survivor has alleged that the village panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district declared his daughter an outcast after he failed to follow its diktat and throw a community feast that he was told would "purify my daughter".

Diktat for social boycott issued by caste panchayats has become a crime punishable with jail term up to seven years and penalty that can extend to Rs five lakh in Maharashtra, a first in the country.

A community panchayat has decided to socially boycott families of a couple who had eloped recently in neighbouring Shamli district, police said today.

A young man belonging to the Scheduled Castes and his Muslim wife were hacked to death in broad daylight in Hapur's Fatehpur village - 75 km from Delhi - on Saturday, allegedly by her brother, for defying the diktat of the panchayat and staying married.

On Saturday, a panchayat called by a Gujjar Samaj committee in Muzaffarnagar issued a stern diktat - "Girls should not wear jeans or use cell phones. That should be forbidden in our village."

A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour on the diktat of a Panchayat chief in Bokaro district of Jharkhand on Tuesday, the police have said.

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

The families of three men, who eloped with a girl of the same gotra (lineage) and village, are being socially boycotted in Haryana following a diktat by a panchayats (village council).

A village panchayat in Bihar has prohibited women from using mobile phones and imposed heavy fines on them if they violated the diktat, an official said today.

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...

Less than an hour from Delhi, a panchayat in union minister Ajit Singh's constituency, has banned love marriages. At a congregation of 36 clangs in Baghpat, it was decided that they will not allow love marriages in their villages, and those who disobey will be banished from the village.

On a panchyat's diktat, a dalit woman and her son were allegedly made to sit on a buffalo with their faces blackened and were paraded around a village here for "helping" a woman to elope, police said on Friday.The panchayat of Jaat-dominated Shujapur village in Shikarpur police station, had blamed fifty-year-old Chandrawati and her 18-year-old son ...

"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...

In Rajasthan's Barmer district, a married couple consider suicide after the Panchayat orders they separate and pay a fine of Rs 5 lakhs.

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 father of a rape survivor has alleged that the village panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district declared his daughter an outcast after he failed to follow its diktat and throw a community feast that he was told would "purify my daughter".

Diktat for social boycott issued by caste panchayats has become a crime punishable with jail term up to seven years and penalty that can extend to Rs five lakh in Maharashtra, a first in the country.

A community panchayat has decided to socially boycott families of a couple who had eloped recently in neighbouring Shamli district, police said today.

A young man belonging to the Scheduled Castes and his Muslim wife were hacked to death in broad daylight in Hapur's Fatehpur village - 75 km from Delhi - on Saturday, allegedly by her brother, for defying the diktat of the panchayat and staying married.

On Saturday, a panchayat called by a Gujjar Samaj committee in Muzaffarnagar issued a stern diktat - "Girls should not wear jeans or use cell phones. That should be forbidden in our village."

A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour on the diktat of a Panchayat chief in Bokaro district of Jharkhand on Tuesday, the police have said.

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

The families of three men, who eloped with a girl of the same gotra (lineage) and village, are being socially boycotted in Haryana following a diktat by a panchayats (village council).

A village panchayat in Bihar has prohibited women from using mobile phones and imposed heavy fines on them if they violated the diktat, an official said today.

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...

Less than an hour from Delhi, a panchayat in union minister Ajit Singh's constituency, has banned love marriages. At a congregation of 36 clangs in Baghpat, it was decided that they will not allow love marriages in their villages, and those who disobey will be banished from the village.

On a panchyat's diktat, a dalit woman and her son were allegedly made to sit on a buffalo with their faces blackened and were paraded around a village here for "helping" a woman to elope, police said on Friday.The panchayat of Jaat-dominated Shujapur village in Shikarpur police station, had blamed fifty-year-old Chandrawati and her 18-year-old son ...

"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...

In Rajasthan's Barmer district, a married couple consider suicide after the Panchayat orders they separate and pay a fine of Rs 5 lakhs.