{"id":31905,"date":"2018-10-29T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31905"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:14:27","slug":"protecting-marriages-across-castes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/protecting-marriages-across-castes\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting marriages across castes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/protecting-marriages-across-castes\/article22466351.ece\"><strong>Protecting marriages across castes<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SC\u2019s direction against Khap panchayats<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was illegal for parents or\u00a0<em>khap<\/em>panchayats to interfere in decisions of adult men and women of different castes to marry<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<em>khap<\/em>panchayat cannot summon adults and question their choice of marriage partner and warned that the court would step in if the centre failed to take steps to stop such interference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Khaps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Khaps<\/em>\u00a0are caste or community organizations in villages which at times act as quasi-judicial bodies and pronounce harsh punishments based on customs and traditions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context of SC\u2019s ruling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court was hearing a 2010 petition by NGO Shakti Vahini against\u00a0<em>khap <\/em>panchayats seeking directions to the centre and state governments for preventing honour crimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting marriages across castes\u00a0 Context SC\u2019s direction against Khap panchayats What has happened? The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that It was illegal for parents or\u00a0khappanchayats to interfere in decisions of adult men and women of different castes to marry A\u00a0khappanchayat cannot summon adults and question their choice of marriage partner and warned that the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/protecting-marriages-across-castes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protecting marriages across castes\u00a0<\/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-31905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704251272},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31905","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=31905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}