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'Honour' crimes/killings. Thread.
1. I tried to find another term that adequately describes such horrors and found nothing.
That is HOW DIFFICULT this conversation is.
But we need to have it. NOW.
We have to begin by finding better descriptions, by de-romanticising these murders.
That is HOW DIFFICULT this conversation is.
But we need to have it. NOW.
We have to begin by finding better descriptions, by de-romanticising these murders.
2. Marrying outside caste, inter-religious marriage, premarital sex, refusing to marry according to family wishes etc.
The excuses are varied.
But the underlying idea is the sense of 'having brought dishonour to the family' by....individual autonomy.
The excuses are varied.
But the underlying idea is the sense of 'having brought dishonour to the family' by....individual autonomy.
3. This thread is for documenting such crimes.
Some of the stories/pictures maybe painful, please be advised.
Some of the stories/pictures maybe painful, please be advised.
4. In 2018, Amrutha married a Pranay, a Dalit Christian. When her father found about her pregnancy, he pressurized her to abort the child. As she refused he hired two killers who hacked Pranay to death with a Machete while the couple was returning from a medical check-up.
When her father was arrested people took out support rallies.
From being a murder accused for hiring killers to end the life of his own son-in-law, he became overnight, an example of ‘fatherly-love’. Even today, there are innumerable fan pages for Maruthi Rao on social media
From being a murder accused for hiring killers to end the life of his own son-in-law, he became overnight, an example of ‘fatherly-love’. Even today, there are innumerable fan pages for Maruthi Rao on social media
There are cringeworthy posts saying that she is “the reason nine lives were ruined including her own.” Many TV channels showcased titles like ‘Father’s Love’, reducing the brutal murder of Pranay to nothing.
A few clips of swamijis preaching about the ‘importance of caste’ to maintain social order, or how to rein in your daughters, are making a re-entry into social groups.
“Father’s love is greater than her immature love,” is the common thread being peddled by many. (The Quint)
“Father’s love is greater than her immature love,” is the common thread being peddled by many. (The Quint)
5. Six months ago M. Sudhakar from the Morappan Thangal village belonged to the Oddar caste married a woman from a different caste
While both of them belonged to groups classified as Most Backward Caste (MBC), Sudhakar’s caste was considered to be the lowest among the MBC groups
While both of them belonged to groups classified as Most Backward Caste (MBC), Sudhakar’s caste was considered to be the lowest among the MBC groups
The woman’s family, which was opposed to the marriage, convened a local panchayat and got it to nullify the marriage and forcibly separated the couple. Sudhakar was subsequently harassed and chased away from the village.
Meanwhile, the family of the woman too had started making arrangements to marry her off to another man from their caste.
Due to Coronavirus lockdown, Sudhakar returned to his village and tried to meet his wife.
Due to Coronavirus lockdown, Sudhakar returned to his village and tried to meet his wife.
When Sudhakar was alone in his village on March 27, the woman’s father, along with a relative, attacked and killed him.
6. In 2019 a 17 year old girl Janani, was abused, assaulted and burnt alive by her own mother for being in a relationship with a Dalit man.
Janani, belonged to the Viswa Karma caste which is categorised as Backward Class.
Attempts were made to marry Janani off to a relative but her family was forced to stall because she was a minor.
Attempts were made to marry Janani off to a relative but her family was forced to stall because she was a minor.
"On November 19, Umamaheswari(her mother)went out to buy kerosene without telling anyone. At 4.30 am in the morning, as she poured the kerosene over Janani, the young girl got up and begged her not to...But she set Janani on fire. She then poured kerosene and immolated herself."
7. In 2019, Sakshi Mishra, daughter of BJP MLA, from a Brahmin caste had secretly married her childhood friend Ajitesh Kumar, 29, a Dalit.
The couple from UP Uttar Pradesh released a video on social media desperately pleading for police protection from the woman’s father
The couple from UP Uttar Pradesh released a video on social media desperately pleading for police protection from the woman’s father
Despite this a group of “unidentified” men attacked them inside the Allahabad court, where the couple had gone to plead before the judges for an extra layer of police protection
8. In Jul 2019, 25 year-old Dalit man Haresh Solanki was hacked to death in Gujarat.
The couple were expecting their first child in a few months and Solanki was trying hard to wrest back his wife from her parent's illegal custody.
The couple were expecting their first child in a few months and Solanki was trying hard to wrest back his wife from her parent's illegal custody.
Eight members of the woman's family, including Urmila's father, Dashrathsinh Jhala, fatally assaulted him outside their home in the presence of law officers, who had gone there to mediate.
Jhala had deceitfully taken his daughter to his home and detained her.
When Solanki approached they charged at him with sticks and swords, slitting his throat as women police officers stood-by helplessly.
When Solanki approached they charged at him with sticks and swords, slitting his throat as women police officers stood-by helplessly.
9. In 2014 Bhavna Yadav, a 21 yr-old student of Venkateswara College, Delhi, was murdered by her parents 3 days after she married Abhishek who belonged to a different caste.
Abhishek who works at the Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's House) in Delhi, says Bhawna's parents had arranged for her to be engaged on 22 November "to a man she had last met when she was six years old".
So the couple decided to get married before the engagement.
So the couple decided to get married before the engagement.
Her father held Bhawna by the feet, mother choked her to death.
They arranged a heap of cow dung cakes and made a pyre. They did not wait for anyone for her cremation.
They arranged a heap of cow dung cakes and made a pyre. They did not wait for anyone for her cremation.
The parents also reportedly told police that after Bhawna died, they cooked up a story. “The parents then called their relatives in Alwar to tell them a snake had bitten Bhawna and they were bringing her to the village for treatment,” police said
10. Sept 2019. Amanpreet Kaur and Amandeep Singh were abducted, crushed under a car, their bodies chopped into pieces, and then shot in Tarn Taran, Punjab by her close relatives.
The accused abducted the couple when they were returning after paying a visit to a gurdwara in Chabhal in Tarn Taran on Sunday
11. 2013, 3 Dalit men Sachin Gharu (24), Sandeep Thanvar (25) and Rahul Kandare (20) were brutally murdered and their mutilated body parts scattered in a septic tank and a dried-up well in Sonai, Maharashtra.
Gharu, who was from the Valmiki community, and the 19-year-old daughter of the main accused, Popat Darandale, belonging to Maratha case, were in a relationship.
In 2018 Nashik Court awarded death penalty to the 6 accused.
In 2018 Nashik Court awarded death penalty to the 6 accused.
12. 2007 a Khap Panchayat in Haryana ordered the murder of Manoj and Babli for marrying the same gotra.
The couple was asked to accept each other as brother and sister. They refused, and then were forcefully fed pesticides. They were then strangled to death, and the bodies were thrown in the canal.
The Khap panchayat's ruling was based on the assumption that Manoj and Babli belonged to the Banwala gotra, a Jat community, and were therefore considered to be siblings despite not being directly related and any union between them would be invalid and incestuous.
Karnal district court sentenced the five perpetrators to be executed, the first time an Indian court had done so in an honour killing case.
But in 2011 The Punjab and Haryana High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to life imprisonment.
But in 2011 The Punjab and Haryana High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to life imprisonment.
13. Hemant, an interior designer from Hyderabad was kidnapped from his home and murdered by his wife’s relatives for marrying outside caste.
The wife had requested police protection in June which they never got.
The wife had requested police protection in June which they never got.
Avanthi, the wife said, “Even when he was dragged away, I was telling myself even if they broke his leg or hand, we could bear with it and we would be fine, I would have taken care of him.
But I was worried if something worse would happen to him. We were living very happily. We never bothered about wealth and money. We wanted to make the most of life.”
His strangulated body was found a day later.
(After the kidnapping)
His strangulated body was found a day later.
(After the kidnapping)
