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Madurai: 'Honour' killings is indeed a misnorm. But the communities and families involved strongly believe that their honour can be redeemed only if the dalit involved in an inter-caste marriage with a member of their community is killed. In some instances, non-dalit women who married dalits have been murdered by their own families because the women's act has brought shame to their families.
With the daylight murder of dalit youth Sankar in Udumalpet on Monday, 81 'honour killings' have taken place in Tamil Nadu since July 2013. Eighty per cent of the victims are female. Till date, not a single killer has been brought to book.
These are pre-meditated murders, caste being the main factor. Inter-caste marriage of young people, mainly between dalits and non-dalits, is seen as a social disgrace. According to executive director of Evidence, an NGO, A Kathir, usually the murders are committed only when the groom is a dalit; when the bride is a dalit, they usually separate the couple and warn the girl not to have any contact with the man in the future.
This NGO conducted a study on dalit women who were single after marriage and found that 84 per cent of them were forcefully separated from their non-dalit husbands, and are now finding it difficult to make both ends meet. Caste based organisations were found to be behind most of these communal murders, sometimes instigating the perpetrators of the crime.
In cases where non-dalit women who married dalits have been murdered by their own families, the bodies are cremated without informing the police. These are made to look like suicides and the police close the matter by registering cases under section 174 of the CrPC as suspicious death or as cremating the body without informing the police. "This is what calls for an exclusive Act for honour killings; any instance of cremating a young girl, who is said to have committed suicide, without performing a postmortem should be registered as a murder case and not under 174 of the CrPC,'' said Kathir.
Ramnad district is notorious for honour killings; Madurai, Tirupur and Cuddalore districts are not far behind. Several castes are involved, but most murder cases pertain to men from the Thevar, Vanniar and Gounder communities.
Is this the culture?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...3-years-0-conviction/articleshow/51420141.cms
With the daylight murder of dalit youth Sankar in Udumalpet on Monday, 81 'honour killings' have taken place in Tamil Nadu since July 2013. Eighty per cent of the victims are female. Till date, not a single killer has been brought to book.
These are pre-meditated murders, caste being the main factor. Inter-caste marriage of young people, mainly between dalits and non-dalits, is seen as a social disgrace. According to executive director of Evidence, an NGO, A Kathir, usually the murders are committed only when the groom is a dalit; when the bride is a dalit, they usually separate the couple and warn the girl not to have any contact with the man in the future.
This NGO conducted a study on dalit women who were single after marriage and found that 84 per cent of them were forcefully separated from their non-dalit husbands, and are now finding it difficult to make both ends meet. Caste based organisations were found to be behind most of these communal murders, sometimes instigating the perpetrators of the crime.
In cases where non-dalit women who married dalits have been murdered by their own families, the bodies are cremated without informing the police. These are made to look like suicides and the police close the matter by registering cases under section 174 of the CrPC as suspicious death or as cremating the body without informing the police. "This is what calls for an exclusive Act for honour killings; any instance of cremating a young girl, who is said to have committed suicide, without performing a postmortem should be registered as a murder case and not under 174 of the CrPC,'' said Kathir.
Ramnad district is notorious for honour killings; Madurai, Tirupur and Cuddalore districts are not far behind. Several castes are involved, but most murder cases pertain to men from the Thevar, Vanniar and Gounder communities.
Is this the culture?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...3-years-0-conviction/articleshow/51420141.cms
