🇮🇳 India
Mar 22, 2026
Timely legislation to deter honour crimes
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Honour killings have long been associated, in public perception, with pockets of northern India, often dismissed as a reflection of a regressive social order alien to the South. That illusion no longer holds. Karnataka’s Home Minister G Parameshwara has disclosed that the state has recorded at least 15 honour killing cases between 2021 and 2025, a reminder that caste and patriarchal anxieties cut across geography. The most recent instance is the murder in Hubballi of 19-year-old Manya Patil
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