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'Barbaric, shameful': Supreme Court on khap panchayats
Published On: April 19, 2011 | Duration: 20 min, 35 sec
Stressing that khap panchayats are illegal, and describing the honour killings they order as "shameful and barbaric", the Supreme Court today said that police officials and bureaucrats who fail to check them should be punished.