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‘Honour killings’: Two friends shot dead in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Two friends were killed in what appears to be an incident of honour killing near Sareghat Chowk on Thursday. Market police SHO Wahid Bux Laghari said 35-year-old Pyar Ali Samo and 30-year-old Jahangir Ali were riding a motorbike when unknown assailants fired at them. They died on the spot. SHO said Samo had married a .. read more
Jan
Youth killed, honour killing suspected
BATHINDA: In yet another honour killing case, a youth has been found beaten to death. The family of the deceased boy alleged that the boy was killed on late Tuesday night for having an affair with the daughter of the accused. The accused family termed it a theft case. Ravinder Kumar (19) of Rama Mandi .. read more
Jan
Honour killing threat for Delhi’s live-in couple, approach court for protection
New Delhi – The Delhi High Court has issued notice to police on a plea of live-in couple seeking protection from the woman’s family, who have allegedly threatened to kill them for “honour”. Justice Veena Birbal, seeking response from Delhi Police, asked it to file a status report on the issue. Appearing for Delhi Police, .. read more
Jan
Honour killing: Crown says Jassi Sidhu killed in India for marrying against mother’s, uncle’s wishes
VANCOUVER — A young British Columbia woman who authorities believe was murdered in a so-called honour killing feared for her life after her family found out about her secret marriage, a Crown lawyer said Monday at the extradition hearing of her mother and uncle. The murder of Jaswinder “Jassi” Sidhu in India almost 14 years ago .. read more
Jan
‘Alternative’ policing in some minority communities
Police are never called by certain minority communities because they administer their own justice even in cases as serious as murder and sexual assaults on children, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor has said. He said offences including “honour” killings and violence, domestic abuse, sexual assaults on children and female genital mutilation were among .. read more
Jan
Two killed for ‘honour’ in Jaffarabad
QUETTA – A man gunned down his wife and her alleged paramour in the name of honour in Jaffarabad district, on Wednesday. According to police, Sabir Ali Chandio shot dead his wife Yasin Bibi and her alleged paramour Ali Gul Chandio in Goth Saeed Khan Rind, Tehsil Gandakwa. “The accused fled from the scene after .. read more
Jan
UP man murders wife in honour killing
The youth, identified as Samarjit Singh, took his wife to his native village in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, killed her and buried the body outside his house. Samarjit and his uncle even planted a sapling on the land to avoid suspicion. “We have arrested Sarabjit, his brother and uncle on the charges of killing .. read more
Jan
Honour killing in Nanded: Parents of 17-year-old held
The police on Saturday arrested a couple in Nanded city for allegedly murdering their 17-year-old daughter in what is believed to be an honour killing case. The police said after realising that their daughter Mayuri was having an affair with a boy, Madhav Jaibhai, 40, and Chaaya Jaibhai, 36, killed her in October 2013 while .. read more
Jan
Kohistan ‘honour’ killing: Pakistani woman Rukhsana Bibi relives horror
On a hot and humid night in late August, a small group quietly scales the wall of a mud-brick house in a village near Pakistan’s north-western town of Akora Khatak. In the dim, starlit courtyard, they make out the figures of a man and a woman lying in two separate charpoy cots, sleeping. About 15 .. read more
Jan
Morocco MPs Ask to End Rapist Marriage Law After Teen Suicide
A Moroccan parliamentary panel voted to repeal a penal code allowing rapists to dodge lawsuits if they marry their victims. The justice and legislation committee voted to scrap a clause in the penal code that stipulates there can be no grounds for lawsuits against those “who abducted or seduced a minor girl who has reached .. read more
Jan
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