Khap Order

A woman accused of having an affair was dragged out of her home in Bengal's Murshidabad on Sunday and humiliated by a group of 50 villagers who ordered her husband to chop off her hair.

An 80-year-old woman in Rajasthan was allegedly paraded naked on a donkey on the orders of the Khap Panchayat.

A 50-year-old woman in Rajasthan was allegedly paraded naked on a donkey on the orders of a self-styled village court that decided that she was guilty of killing her husband's cousin. Villagers chopped off her hair, blackened her face and stripped her as she kept pleading that she was innocent.

At a district in Uttar Pradesh racked by communal violence last year, a "khap panchayat" has ordered 40 villages to follow the two-child limit for good health and prosperity.

The gang-rape of a tribal girl allegedly on the orders of a khap panchayat in Birbhum district of West Bengal on January 21 was condemned today by political parties cutting across the party lines.

Strongly defending Khap Panchayats (caste councils), Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said they don't order "dishonour killings" and most such cases involve relatives of boys or girls, whose relations are opposed by their families.

A boy and his family members from a village in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district were attacked and at least four houses belonging to them razed on the direction of a khap panchayat (caste council) after he eloped with a girl from his caste, police said on Tuesday.

"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...

A woman accused of having an affair was dragged out of her home in Bengal's Murshidabad on Sunday and humiliated by a group of 50 villagers who ordered her husband to chop off her hair.

An 80-year-old woman in Rajasthan was allegedly paraded naked on a donkey on the orders of the Khap Panchayat.

A 50-year-old woman in Rajasthan was allegedly paraded naked on a donkey on the orders of a self-styled village court that decided that she was guilty of killing her husband's cousin. Villagers chopped off her hair, blackened her face and stripped her as she kept pleading that she was innocent.

At a district in Uttar Pradesh racked by communal violence last year, a "khap panchayat" has ordered 40 villages to follow the two-child limit for good health and prosperity.

The gang-rape of a tribal girl allegedly on the orders of a khap panchayat in Birbhum district of West Bengal on January 21 was condemned today by political parties cutting across the party lines.

Strongly defending Khap Panchayats (caste councils), Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said they don't order "dishonour killings" and most such cases involve relatives of boys or girls, whose relations are opposed by their families.

A boy and his family members from a village in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district were attacked and at least four houses belonging to them razed on the direction of a khap panchayat (caste council) after he eloped with a girl from his caste, police said on Tuesday.

"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...