{"id":30301,"date":"2018-10-26T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30301"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:48:16","slug":"honour-killing-guillotines-liberty-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/honour-killing-guillotines-liberty-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour killing guillotines liberty: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/honour-killing-guillotines-individual-liberty-says-sc\/article23368421.ece\"><strong>Honour killing guillotines liberty: SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coming down heavily on crimes committed in the name of honour, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the choice of consenting adults to love and marry as a part of their fundamental rights<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issues guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It issued a set of guidelines for authorities to safeguard young couples under threat for marrying outside their caste or religion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Condemnation of Khap Panchayats by SC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevated sense of honor among elders:<\/strong> It ridiculed the \u201celevated sense of honour\u201d of elders, the collective and khap panchayats who rain horror on couples for choosing to marry outside their caste, clan or religion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elders nothing but patriarchal monarchs: <\/strong>It termed the elders, presiding over murder in broad daylight, as \u201cpatriarchal monarchs\u201d who believe they are the descendants of Caesar or Louis XIV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human rights are not to be mortgaged<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The human rights of a daughter, brother, sister or son are not mortgaged to the so-called or so-understood honour of the family or clan or the collective<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consent of family not necessary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court held that the consent of the family, community or clan is not necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background: <\/strong>The judgment came on a petition filed by NGO Shakti Vahini to curb honour crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honour killing guillotines liberty: SC What has happened? Coming down heavily on crimes committed in the name of honour, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the choice of consenting adults to love and marry as a part of their fundamental rights Issues guidelines It issued a set of guidelines for authorities to safeguard young couples&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/honour-killing-guillotines-liberty-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honour killing guillotines liberty: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914144},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}