Amidst the euphoria however comes the realization that the implementation of the Bill would not be immediate but would require several years if not more. In culinary terms it is like heaping a pile of plates on a rising pudding or cake. Of course politicising gender is a constant, yet cannot immediate implementation of the Bill prove to the world that India has creditably addressed SDG 5 before 2030 as an example to both the Global North and the Global South?
Police in Prayagraj have arrested a 58-year-old man for allegedly killing his 19-year-old daughter and then burying her body in the city's Karchana area.
Srinivas, a resident of Vemulawada town, allegedly hired two killers, one from Bihar, to assassinate Manoj Kumar, 25, according to Rajanna Sircilla police.
She did not reveal the name of the person responsible. Police are trying to find out about the person, who could be the rapist as she is a minor.
Angry over Shankar marrying Kowsalya, who belongs to the dominant Thevar community, Chinnasamy was alleged to have hired a gang of five assailants who had hacked Shankar to death and attempted to murder Kowsalya in broad daylight at Udumalpet in Tamil Nadu on 13 March 2016.
The police got a whiff of the honour killing after being alerted by a village official and interrogated and finally arrested the couple.
SP City Akhilesh Narayan Singh told that Vaseem, 24, was arrested on Saturday on charges of the murder of his sister Nagma (20) because of her affair with a boy in Peer Wala Mohalla of Kamalpur village of Medical Police Station.
23-year-old Abhishank Pal was allegedly in a relationship with Shivani Gupta whose father reportedly burnt him alive to save his honour.
In the latest incident, two young lovers were killed, their bodies were chopped into pieces and burnt on the same funeral pyre in Gaya
So far this year, 938 women and men have been victims of honour killings in the country, according to the non-profit Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
