The document discusses honor killing in India. It defines honor killing as the murder of an individual by someone seeking to protect family honor, often due to marrying outside the caste or religion without family approval. The document outlines several objectives and causes of honor killings in India. It provides facts about honor killings in various Indian states and discusses the types of situations that can trigger honor killings, such as rape, homosexuality, forbidden relationships, and refusing arranged marriages. The document also examines the impact of honor killings, legal aspects, and government policies regarding these crimes in India.

1. SIES COLLEGE OF ARTS,SCIENCE AND COMMERCE, NERUL.
B.Com (Accounting & Finance)
FOUNDATION COURSE
TOPIC:- HONOUR KILLING IN INDIA
(GROUP NO-19)
SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR-MS.MUSHIRA CHARFARE

2. Index
SR.NO CONTENT ROLL.NO
1 Introduction 143
2 Objectives and Causes of Honour Killing 87
3 Facts of Honour Killing 56
4 Types of Honour Killing 98
5 Impact of Honour Killing 143
6 Effects of Honour Killing 98
7 Case Study of Honour Killing in India 56
8 Government Policies 137
9 Legal aspects and National Legislations of Honour Killing 137
10 Analysis of Survey
11 Methodology and Conclusion 98,87

3. INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION:- Honour killing is defined as killing for honour, a
death that is given to the men or woman for marrying outside their
caste.
❖ Honour killing is the murder of an individual, either an outsider
or a member of a family, by someone seeking to protect what
they see as the dignity and honour of their family.
❖ Honour killing are often connected to religion, caste and other
forms of hierarchical social stratification, and those murdered
will often be more liberal than the murderer rather than
genuinely “dishonorable”.
❖ Most often, it involves the murder of a woman or girl by male
family members, due to the perpetrators’ belief that the victim
has brought dishonour or shame upon the family name,
reputation or prestige. 143

4. Objectives
1. To understand honour killing as the serious crime .
2. To study the role of law in honour killing.
3. To educate the society about the consequences of honour killing.
4. To known the causes that lead to instances of honour killing.
5. Understanding the different types of honour killing.
6. Data analysis of responses collected by means of a survey, followed by a
graphical representation of the same.
7. To be aware about the existing laws that have been implemented by the
government to curb honour killing. 87

5. Causes
➔ The prime factor of the crime is – majority caste members do not accept
inter-caste marriage to maintain the decorum of their caste or status of
their family in the society.
➔ Due to the complex socio-cultural problems the crime of honour killing
is divulging at the high rate.
➔ The honour killing also takes place when the matter of same Gotra came.
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6. India’s supreme
court recorded 288
honor killings in
india between 2014
and 2016.
The honor culture in
islamic society is
manifested in a “triangle”
consisting of the values
of honor, shame and
revenge.
Pakistan has the highest
number of documented
and estimated honor
killings per capita of any
country in the world.
Most honor killings were
reported in Madhya
Pradesh, 18, Uttar
Pradesh, 16 and Gujarat,
10 in 2016.
Facts of Honor killing
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7. TYPES OF HONOUR KILLING
❖ In many cultures, victims of rape face severe violence,
including honour killings, from their family and relatives.
❖ In many parts of the world, women who have been raped are
considered to have brought ‘dishonour’ or ‘disgrace’ to their
families. This is especially the case if the victim becomes
pregnant.
❖ Central to the code of honour, in many societies, is a woman’s
virginity, which must be preserved until marriage. Suzanne
Ruggi writes, “A woman’s virginity is the property of the men
around her, first her father, later a gift for her husband; a
virtual dowry as she graduates to marriage.”
1.Victims of Rape
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8. 2.Homosexuality
❖ There is evidence that homosexuality can also be perceived as grounds for
honor killing by relatives.
❖ Its is not only same-sex sexual acts that trigger violence-behaviors that are
regarded as inappropriate gender expression (e.g. male acting or dressing
in a “feminine way”) can also raise suspicion and lead to honor violence
among the family members.
❖ In one case, a gay jordanian man was shot and wounded by his brother. In
another case, in 2008, a homosexual Turkish-Kurdish student, Ahmet
Yildiz, was shot outside a cafe and later died in hospital. Sociologists
have called this Turkey’s first publicized gay honor killing. In 2012, a 17-
year-old gay youth was murdered by his father in Turkey in southeastern
province of Diyarbakir.
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9. 3.Forbidden Male
Partners
❖ In many honor-based cultures, a woman maintains
her honor through their modesty. If a man disrupts
a woman’s modesty, through dating her, having
sex with her (especially if her virginity was lost),
the man has dishonored the woman, even if the
relation is consensual.
❖ Thus to restore the woman’s lost honor, the male
members of her family will often beat and murder
the offender. Sometimes, violence extends to the
offender’s family members, since honor feud
attacks are seen as family conflicts.
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10. 4.Interfaith and Outside Caste Relation or
Marriage
❖ Some cultures have very strong caste social systems, based on social
stratification characterized, ritual status in a hierarchy, customary social
interaction, and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.
❖ The caste system in india is such an example. In such cultures, it is often
expected that one marries and forms closed associations only within one’s
caste and avoids lower castes.
❖ When these rules are violated, including relations with people of a different
religion, this can result in violence, including honor killing.
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11. 5.Seeking a Divorce
❖ A woman attempting to obtain a divorce or separation without the consent of
the husband/extended family can also be a trigger for honor killings.
❖ In cultures where marriages are arranged and goods are often exchanged
between families, a woman’s desire to seek a divorce is often viewed as an
insult to the men who negotiated the deal. By making their marital problems
known outside their family, the women are seen as exposing the family to
public dishonor.
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12. 6.Refusal of Arranged or Forced
Marriage
❖ Refusal of an arranged marriage or forced marriage is often a cause of an
honor killing. The family that has pre-arranged the marriage risks disgrace if
the marriage does not proceed and the betrothed is indulged in a relationship
with another individual without prior knowledge of the family members.
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13. Impact of Honor Killing
➔ Thousands of young people in India have been done to death every year owing to Honour
Killings linked to forced marriages and the country needs to introduce stringent
legislation to deal firmly with the heinous crime.
➔ In Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi region, an estimated hundred young men and women are
killed on the orders of so called “khap panchayat”.
➔ Honour Killing is considered to be a crime that threatens the unity and harmony of the
community and it acts as a brief preventing women from progressing in their lives.
Honour Killing and punishment have been documented over centuries among a wide
variety of ethnic and religious groups throughout the world.
➔ Women of family also help in Honour killings.Sometimes a mother may support an
Honour killing of an "offending" female family member in order to preserve the Honour
of other female family members, since many men in these societies will refuse to marry
the sister of a "shamed" female whom the family has not chosen to punish, thereby failing
to "purify" the family name. Men can also be the victims of Honour killings by members
of the family of a woman with whom they are perceived to have an inappropriate
relationship
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14. ➔ Though cases of Honour killings have been reported from
all over India, but it is mainly prevalent in the Indian states
of Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana,Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, as
a result of people marrying without their family's
acceptance, and sometimes for marrying outside their caste
or religion.
➔ In contrast, Honour killings are rare to non-existent in
South India and the western Indian states of Maharashtra
and Gujarat.
➔ The Indian State of Punjab is notorious for Honour killings.
According to data compiled by the Punjab Police, 34
Honour killings were reported in the state between 2008
and 2010: 10 in 2008, 20 in 2009, and four in 2010.
Haryana also is known for incidents of Honour killing. In
June 2010 some incidents were reported even from Delhi.
In Haryana recently there has been many incidents of
Honour killings mainly due to blind verdicts of so called
Khap Panchayats.
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15. Case Study of Honour Killing in India
Manoj and Babli, from karora village in kaithal district, were brutally murdered by
babli’s relatives in june 2007. The cruel act was carried out on the orders of a khap
panchayat, for marrying in the same gotra. On june 23, two decomposed bodies
were found from barwala branch canal in hissar. Further investigation led to
shocking details. According to reports, 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.
1.Manoj and Babli
Case
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16. Bhavna Yadav Death
In November 2014, a 21-year-old Delhi University
student Bhavna Yadav was strangled to death by her
parents, just three days after her marriage, because she
tied the knot against her parents’ wishes. Bhavna was
allegedly killed by her father jagmohan yadav and
mother savitri yadav at her house in south-west Delhi’s
Dwarka North. According to reports, after killing their
daughter, the parents took body to Alwar in Rajasthan,
and set it on fire. Bhavna had married 24-year-old
Abhishekh Seth on November 12 against the wishes of
her family members.
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17. GOVERNMENT POLICIES
➔ Honour Killing has been seen as a customary crime is not yet
recognized in Indian laws.
➔ In spite increase in honour related crimes and judgements and
expressions of outrage in courts across India, the Governments have
displayed negligence in their approach towards these crimes.
➔ There are no definition of this crime, no legal recognition of various
aspects of this crime, no protection afforded to couples, no
measurement to prevent such crimes, no accountability and no
punishment.
➔ Since there is no separate law for honour killing cases, these killings are
reported only under 2 categories – Murder (section 302 of Indian Penal
Code) and Culpable Homicide (Section 304 of IPC).
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18. ➔ Due to this, most of the killings are either unreported or reported under
murder.
➔ Hence there is no proper statistics of such killing in India.
➔ Only in 2014, the National Crime Bureau started data collection of honour
Killing which revealed 297% number jump on rigorous data collection on
this issue.
➔ The country has registered 251 honour killing cases in 2015 against 28 in
2014 recording a big spike in murders carried in the name of honours.
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19. Legal aspects of Honour Killing
Constitutional Violation:
➔ Indian Constitution has been the basic document and guiding force which vests
ample of rights to its citizens.
➔ Honour Killing violates few such provisions in the constitutions, thus contrary to
the basic rights of people.
➔ Most of the honour killing focuses on women and thus leads to gender based
violence.
➔ The act is totally contrary to the Constitutions.
➔ Hence it is the duty to protect such vulnerable people and protect their lives
against this evil practices.
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20. National Legislations of Honour Killing
➔ Indian Majority Act, 1859 – Right to marry is a constitutional act guaranteed in
which a major citizen of India wanting to get married of any another caste or inter
community marriage is not prohibited by law and any honour killing initiated on this
ground is unlawful and to be initiated severe measurement.
➔ Special Marriage Act, 1954 – The objectives of this Act is to provide a special form
of marriages for citizens of India as well as for Indians residing in foreign countries to
get married irrespective of caste, religion, faith of the intending parties of marriage.
Since the registration process is long one and there are chances of the couples being
subjected to violence during such periods.
➔ Domestic Violence Act, 2005 – Under this Act, if a women is prevented from
marrying the person of her choice amounts to emotional abuse of the women.
➔ Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Act, 2006 – The act provides for
protection of human rights of every individual and constitutions of Commission and
Courts for securing the respective objective. In Spite of all these practices honour
killing leads to grave violation of human rights.
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21. Analysis of Survey

25. Methodology
Data collection is a process of collecting information from all the relevant sources
s to achieve the objective of the project report .Data collection methods can be
divided into two categories that is : secondary method of data collection and
primary method of data collection.
By keeping in mind, the nature of my presentation report I have opted for the
primary and secondary method of data collection.
1. primary method of data collection - we have used questionnaires that is the
survey.
2.Secondary method of data collection : that we have collected by us .the
Common sources of secondary data include various published or unpublished
data, books, magazines, newspaper, trade journals etc.

26. Conclusion
➔ Honour Killing is a customary crime which needs to be prevented because
every year number of innocent women dies in the name as they have brought
shame to their family due to various reasons that is Gender Discrimination,
Violation of Women's Rights, lack of education and awareness among the
people, less stringent laws and unreported cases.
➔ India being the multicultural, multi traditional should prohibit these types of
crimes as it hampers the development of civilised country. Thus there is a
need to respect each and every religion, caste, gender without discrimination
and protecting each other and seeing for the welfare of the society at large.
No religion' or culture' can be invoked to validate the evil practice of honour
killing.

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