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| Emulate kashmiri pandits and stop honour killings | | |
Honour killing,what it is called while referring to the murder of either a boy or a girl or both for marrying either against the wishes of their parents,or in the same gotra(sub cast) or in a different community,has become,of late,a major problem in various Indian states.The problem seems to have assumed alarming dimensions in the states of Uttar Pradesh,Haryana,Rajasthan,Delhi,Punjab and other states.In certain cases the couples have been done to death even after their marriage was registered
and the courts had directed the police to provide security to them.And the way these honour killings take place one's bones shiver in their pants when one finds two teenagers,Asha and Yogesh, first beaten mercilessly and then elctrocuted in Delhi the other day.The boys fault was that he ,being a cabbie,had dared to love Asha who belonged to a family of wholesalers.One feels horrified when one finds Anil and Rani strangulated to death in Haryana after Rani's family found them together.In Faridabad area of Haryana Panchayats of two Gujjar villages issued a diktat recently urging newly wed couples to separate from each other and apologise for their actions.The diktat was the result of the decision of a boy and girl belonging different gotras to get married.Since the custom prevailing in the area is that boys and girls of the same village cannot enter into wedlock the couple was asked to separate.The Panchayats have directed the couple to present
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before the members of the committees.Groups of people have been so much enraged by the weddings taking place without the consent of the parents that a group filed a PIL in the Supreme
Court seeking court direction to the Government to amend the Hindu Marriage Act to prohibit same gotra marriages.The court declined to entertain the petition on the plea that the petitioners should first approach the High Court in Delhi.Those who are against same gotra marriages argue that scientific data was avaliable which proved that marriages among close relatives might lead to genetic disorders.They have stated that allowing same gotra marriages could play havoc with the social fabric.But one thing is certain that there have been innumerable cases where boys and girls,belonging to the same gotra or being close relations,have entered into the wedlock in the past.But their case history has shown that there was no genetic disorder in their proginy.Experts are of the opinion that inbreeding depression in humans has been quite uncommon because marriages in the same gotras and among close relations had not been in vogue.The petitioners wanted the
Government to amend the Hindu Marriage Act so that when the same gotra marriages were prohibited there would be no need for carrying out honour killings.Since it has not been fully confirmed that the same gotra marriages could result in inbreeding depression one need not be so insolent and heartless against same gotra or same clan marriages.It is inhuman and barbaric to torture to death those who go in for same gotra marriages.The very act of honour killing is violation of human and fundamental rights.There are millions of Hindus,most of them settled in foreign countries,who have no idea of the gotras they belong to.Usually marriages in these families are usually the result of love affair or the outcome of working relations they pick up in the offices they work together.There have been a large, large number of Hindu boys and girls having gone in for intercaste and inter-religion marriages.There has been neither any commotion nor any incident of honour
killing.Is it because such weddings have taken place between the haves and not between the havenots and the haves. In the context of these brutal activities credit be given to the people in Jammu and Kashmir where honour killings have been quite rare.Added credit need to be given to the families of displaced Kashmiri Pandits who have not raised any hue and cry when their boys and girls have started going in for intercaste and inter-region marriages.You have Kashmiri girls even in Keralite families.You have Punjabi girls in a number of Pandit families and several pandit families having foreigners as their daughters-in-law and so on.Learn from the pandits is the need of the hour.(eom) |
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