Honour Killing

Honour killing is the practice of killing one's own family member who is perceived to have done something that cause discredits and affected the name of the family.

In India every year scores of young couples who fall in love to each other and got married get killed by the very close relatives of either boy or girl. The reason of murder is always associated to family strict affiliation to culture, caste system, social status and many other countless reasons. This type of killing is called 'Honour Killing'.

Most common case of honour killing in marriage in an Indian family culture is the love marriage of a lower caste boy to a higher caste girl.

The higher cast family thinks that such marriage would only lead to disgrace to the the family as a whole. To save their family and clan from disgrace they prefer to kill the groom or the bride or both.

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