What is honor killing ?
Definition: An honor killing or honour killing(also called a customary killing) is the murder of a family or clan member by one or more fellow family members, where the murderers (and potentially the wider community) believe the victim to have brought dishonor upon the family, clan, or community.
In India, the news of honor killings makes headlines every now and then. Recently, the Khap Mahapanchayat, the apex body of khaps or traditional Jat caste councils in Haryana, western UP and parts of rural Delhi, was in line with it and the demand for a stringent Law(Sati-like) to curb the Honor Killings in the name of Gotra, Caste, religion, culture and adultery in INDIA again surfaced from various corners of society and personalities. The honor killing of any form in any civilized society cannot be accepted as it is humanity that is killed and I fully endorse the same.
IPC 498a is a legalized HONOUR KILLING of husbands & in-laws in India
The registration of non cognizable criminal case and arresting whole family on mere wild allegations from wife without testing the veracity of complaint with any kind of proofs has surely puts the gender biased IPC 498a in the spectrum of legalized HONOUR KILLING.
More & more husbands are falling pray to false 498a as it’s now working on the analogy of fashion among unscrupulous wives to book their husbands & in-laws under 498a to dictate their terms. These wives are not only harassing their husbands but whole family of in-laws, even distant relatives of husbands are made to feel the heat of criminal case by filing false complaint under 498a.The recent glaring example of misuse of 498a in India is a Shoaib-Sania saga. Was there any issue of dowry prohibition in this case?
The wife files frivolous complaint under 498a against her husband and in-laws to take revenge(honor salvaging) for not bowing down to her unwanted demands or tries to fulfill her greedy desires, however, on the other hand, the innocent husband and in-laws looses their hard earned honor over the years in society and undergoes the trauma of criminal case trial. The social bashing, doomed future and sense of responsibility(to bring uncalled problem in family) creates an unbearable pressure on husband and his family which many a times results in either one or two suicides in family.
So isn’t the IPC 498a, a legalized HONOUR KILLING of husbands & in-laws in India in the name of Dowry Prohibition?
Yes, the Honor killing is most condemnable so is IPC 498a.
IPC 498a should be scrapped
The Indian Government should first delegalize this honor killing of husbands in India by scrapping off the IPC 498a and then to think of bringing in any stringent law to curb the honor killings of any form? There can’t be double standards on Government part that on one side keeping promoting and legalizing HONOUR KILLING of husbands & in-laws under IPC 498a and on the other side bringing in yet another Law to curb HONOUR KILLING.
Moreover, Even after 27 years of enforcement of this Dowry prohibition law-498a( in the year 1983) in India, the feminists and government claim that the dowry menace is ever increasing as the complaints under 498a is increasing and treats the figures of 498a registered cases as the awareness indicator among women folks about their rights. Here, they are not realizing the factual truth about this increase which is it’s large scale misuse by women in India as it became an easy tool to settle personal scores and extortion from in-laws.
Even if their view is to be believed then what’s the use of this law which is unable to reduce the dowry menace in India even after 27 years of its applicability and is only promoting HONOUR KILLING?
Jai Hind !
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you are right. Tthe husbands in India are treated as an untouchable and are being slaughtered with false 498a , DV, 125, divorce and child custody cases. These gender biased acts are really a legal tool for honor killing of husbands & in-laws in India
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Nice analysis.
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Whatever is written here is all great to read and enjoy for free time debates and my kind regards to the one who took the great job of writing and then posting it; however, I have few things to say…first and foremost, honor killing and dowry are obviously connected but in a slightly different way I guess than what is written here or may be in addition to what picture is shown here, dowry related honor killings occur mostly for women and not really for men; and if someone one here thinks that 498 is a legalized honor killing for husbands this is blasphemy! After all 498 does not kill anybody and I don’t think all women are unscrupulous to lodge file against the in laws and husbands without any ground. Now my only question is, does the writer here mean to say that dowry is a minor offense and does not deserve punishment or resistance from the victimized woman?
First of all . thanks! to take out time to read & analyze it.
“dowry related honor killings occur mostly for women and not really for men;”
Dear, even after having in force gender biased laws like Dowry prohibition Act,1961 and then IPC 498a, 1983 and then Domestic violence Act,2005 alongwith maintenance,child custody etc., enforced decades back you think dowry as projected by the feminists is really that big problem. Sorry, Man, when you will count each married women death by default a “dowry death” you are escalating the problem. I am not syaing it is 100% eliminated but my dear I can assure you that it has been reduced to almost negligible level. For that sake take your views as example being Man.
“if someone one here thinks that 498 is a legalized honor killing for husbands this is blasphemy! After all 498 does not kill anybody”
Hon’ble Supreme Court itself has declared it as ” legal terrorism” and killing someone, dear it kills you alive almost each & every moment(from my own 7 years of experience and study on it) and not only to you but including all near and dear to you like old parents,siblings rwelatives etc. For more you can study on it a bit.
“I don’t think all women are unscrupulous to lodge file against the in laws and husbands without any ground.”
Exactly, this was what I use to think 7 years ago, but when it hits then only you can come to know that all that gliters is not gold. And frankely speaking my fault was one that I have not taken any dory not even a Kurta Payajama. Dear when law is so tilted on one side why not it will be misused for extortion and revenge etc. on false allegation. Do study some more study on this IPC 498a you yourself will come to know that on mere statement of wife how she can send you jail.
“Now my only question is, does the writer here mean to say that dowry is a minor offense and does not deserve punishment or resistance from the victimized woman?”
No dowry is not a minor offense but misuse of 498a is far grusome & cruel offense than dowry itself. and my dear if you consider (as is in law & propagated by feminists) every crime agaist women a crime for dowry then sorry dowry can never be eliminated from indian society. Take the high profile latest eample of Ayeha & shoiab was dowry involved any way in it but Shoiab was slapped with IPC 498a and he scummed to it by paying 5 crores.
Brilliant. I agree.