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New Delhi:
Murdering somebody for adopting a dress code "unacceptable" to their
caste or community may come under the ambit of honour killings if a
Group of Ministers set up to look into the scourge adopts a proposal
in this regard. This is one of the proposed amendments to the Indian
Penal Code (IPC), Evidence Act, 1872 and Special Marriages Act, 1954
being discussed by the Group of Ministers set up amid divergent
views on tackling honour killings, government sources told PTI.
Among other proposals, the "revised" draft of Indian Penal Code and
Certain Other Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010 plans to bring murders for
bringing "dishonour" to caste or family through marriages under the
ambit of honour killings.
According to the "revised bill" in circulation, the government is
planning to bring amendments to sections 300 (committing an
intentional act which causes death) and 354 (assault or criminal
force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of IPC and
Section 105 of the Indian Evidence Act. In section 300 of IPC, the
government is planning to introduce honour killings as the fifth
clause.
The proposed fifth clause says, "if it is done by any person or
persons acting in concert with, or at the behest of, a member of the
family or a member of a body or group of the caste or clan or
community or caste panchayat (by whatever name called) in the belief
that the victim has brought dishonour or perceived to have brought
dishonour upon the family or caste or clan or community or caste
panchayats." In the explanations given for the clause, the proposal
says that "dishonour" and "perceived to have brought dishonour" will
include "acts of any person adopting a dress code which is
unacceptable to his or her family or caste or clan or community or
caste panchayat".
The murders for choosing to marry within or outside the ''gotra''
(sub-caste) or caste or clan or community against the wishes of
one's family or caste or clan or community will also come under the
ambit of the honour killings, if the proposals pass through the test
in Parliament. Killing somebody for engaging in sexual relations
which are unacceptable to the community or caste panchayat or family
also comes under it, the draft says.
Externment of a person in the belief that he or she has brought
dishonour will also be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or
with both, the draft said. On who all come under the ambit of honour
killings, the draft suggest that all members of a body or group of
caste or clan or community or caste panchayat, ordering or abetting
the commission of murder will be deemed guilty of having committed
the murder.
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