honour killing
- India
Gujarat woman hammered to death by kin over viral video with man
Ahmedabad: A woman was allegedly murdered in an honour killing in Gujarat’s Sakhrej by her father and brother after a video of her with a man was widely circulated on social media.…
- Hate Crime
TN: 25-year-old Dalit man hacked to death in honour killing
Chennai: A 23-year-old Dalit youth was hacked to death in a suspected honour killing in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district. The assailants, identified as Manikandan, Ezhumalai, Nantheesh, and Gautam, allegedly used machetes to…
- Telangana
Telangana HC orders CBI probe into ST student’s honour killing
Hyderabad: Nearly four years after the body of a young Scheduled Tribe (ST) law graduate was fished out of a canal in Telangana, the High Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation…
- India
MP couple elopes to Gujarat, woman killed in honour killing
Madhya Pradesh/Gujarat: A case of honour killing has come forward from Gujarat, after a young couple from Madhya Pradesh‘s Shivpuri district had eloped to the state in search of a dignified life.…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: Woman killed in alleged honour crime; Three arrested
Hyderabad: Police have arrested three persons, including a woman’s husband, mother and grandfather, in connection with the alleged honour killing of a 24-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh and the subsequent attempt to…
- Telangana
Inter-caste marriages or consolidation: Ambiguity in Telangana caste census
Hyderabad: The Telangana Socio, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey-2024 has shed new light on the state of inter-caste marriages across 56 castes, revealing a society in transition, but one where…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra: Police inspector suspended over ‘involvement’ in honour killing
Andhra Pradesh: A police inspector was suspended on Sunday, April 5, over his alleged involvement in an honour killing of a woman in a village under Macherla in Palnadu district, a senior…
- Andhra Pradesh
Love marriage turns fatal: Man killed in suspected honour crime in AP
Hyderabad: In a suspected case of honour killing, a clothes trader was brutally murdered at Vemulapalli, a suburb of Dwarapudi in East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, late on Thursday night, February…
- India
Rohith Vemula, Honour Killing Bills sent for review, says Karnataka Minister
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister H K Patil said that the state Cabinet has discussed key legislations, including the proposed Rohith Vemula Bill and the honour killing Bill, and decided to seek further inputs…
- Telangana
Telangana woman marries Dalit, family attempts honour killing
Hyderabad: An honour killing was attempted on a couple by the woman’s father and brother in Telangana’s Mancherial district. Fortunately, the couple survived. The incident occurred in Bheemaram village. According to the police,…
- India
UP couple found dead behind temple, honour killing suspected
Moradabad: Bodies of a 24-year-old Muslim man and an 18-year-old Hindu woman were found behind a temple in what is suspected to be an honour killing in Umri village of Uttar Pradesh‘s…
- Telangana
Couple arrested for ‘honour killing’ of 17-year-old daughter in Karimnagar
Hyderabad: A couple was arrested in Shivarampally village of Saidapur mandal in Telangana‘s Karimnagar, on Thursday, December 25, in a suspected case of honour killing involving their 17-year-old daughter after she refused…
- India
Woman ‘marries’ partner’s corpse after family kills him over caste
Nanded: A 21-year-old Aanchal ‘married’ her partner’s corpse on Friday, November 28, after her father and siblings allegedly killed him in an act of honour killing in Maharashtra’s Nanded district. Videos of…
- India
Chennai Dalit software engineer murder: Father of prime accused arrested
The grieving parents of 27-year-old Dalit software engineer, Kavin Selvaganesh, finally received their son’s body on Friday, August 1, after the Tamil Nadu police arrested suspected sub-inspector Saravanan. Saravanan served in the…
- Hate Crime
Woman denies cop parent’s role in Chennai software engineer’s murder
Tirunelveli: In an alleged honour killing of Dalit software engineer, the woman, who was known to be in love with the victim, is heard saying in a video that her Sub Inspector…
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