The underbelly of the Indian society is time and again exposed as couples who marry outside their caste or communities continue to face deadly violence
An Indian runaway couple were allegedly attacked outside a court in northern Uttar Pradesh state, barely a week after they released a video on social media desperately pleading for police protection from the woman’s father who despised her relationship with a man from a so-called ‘untouchable’ Hindu caste.
On Monday the group of “unidentified” men launched the assault inside the Allahabad court, where the couple had gone to plead before the judges for an extra layer of police protection. Hours before the video shored-up public support on social media for the couple last week, some 1,200 kilometres away in west India, a Dalit man was brutally hacked to death with swords by his in-laws to avenge the loss of their ‘family honour’.
"Eight men came running and dragged Haresh out of the vehicle and beat him to death," Bhavika Bhagore, the official accompanying Solanki and an eye witness to the gruesome murder, told police in her complaint. "Women are seen as repository of caste and religious practices and rituals. There is a sudden class and cultural transformation happening in India, where women are getting educated, working and choosing their partners.”
The pair registered their marriage under India's civil marriage law, one of the many marriage procedures available to the citizens in the officially secular country of 1.3 billion people.India's former chief judge Deepak Misra in a 54-page judgement in 2018 remarked that "the act of honour killing puts the rule of law in a catastrophic crisis".
"Honour killings are an end product. Most couples go through a lot of pressure, security issues and intimidation. They live a life of hell and one day they are killed," Kant said.India was shocked by the murder of a couple in 2007 after a caste council ordered they be killed.
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