HONOUR KILLING IN INDIA: AN ANALYSIS ON INDIAN STATUTES (By- K.Vikas)
Honor killing being one of the most
exceedingly terrible social evil in the general public which took numerous
blameless existence of young women and young men since ages similar to the
issue of integrity of the family or of the
society. It has
been trailed by the individuals from the general public and as an issue of
pride, while doing this the part's thinks to clean the transgressions being
submitted by other part by conflicting with the normal practices. India there
are no different enactment comparable to wrongdoing of honor killing, Indian
courts applies the segments of Indian Penal Code in attempting instances of
honor killing which is thus observed to be insufficient. There has been
numerous ideas connection to presentation of new separate laws in towards honor
killing however governing body till date proved unable make any law or separate
enactment in such manner. The explanation of non-presentation of new laws or
then again enactment might be because of wistful part of the individuals from
the general public, as honor killing is being drilled since ages and the
lawmakers might be feeling that presentation of new law
against those social traditions might make
pressure among the general public. Yet, in any case to the unsteadiness, the
arrangement of honor killing ought to be destroyed from the general public as
it is seen that more than huge number of people lose their lives following this
practices. Besides, it comes as an obstacle to arrangements of Fundamental
freedoms gave under the Indian Constitution. To Culminate instances of honor
killing there ought to be a presentation of new demonstrations or enactments
which ought to be extremely severe and get the degree to each individual
whoever carries out this wrongdoing, punish them with severe discipline so it
makes a dread in the personalities of individuals who attempts to submit it.
Severe laws will debilitate individuals in acting or carrying out such
appalling wrongdoing.Amending existing laws to ensure stringent action against
those involved in honor crimes. The Haryana government changed its mind on
honor laws on crime. In the first affidavit, the State fully agreed with the
Center to amend the Indian Evidence Act, the IPC, etc. for serious action
against the accused then filed a counter-affidavit to erase the reference to
its earlier pro-center stance. makinghonor killings a separate offense under
the IPC to make law enforcement agencies aware. Another idea was to amend the
Indian Evidence Act to put the burden of proof on the accused.The solution to
this problem mainly lies in the eradication of myths in the minds of people.
Cases such as these show that more than half of the Indians still lead lives
within the strong crutches of the caste system and even today youths don’t have
the power to make decisions regarding their own lives. To see that even today,
people blindly commit such barbaric crimes and consider it as an act of
sanctifying the impure shows that India has really not modernized. Development has to be from the very base to
the core.