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HONOUR KILLING: A SOCIO LEGAL STUDY
Abstract
The origin of honour killing can be trace back to the Romanian times when the peter familial or
the senior male member within a household, retained the right to kill and unmarried but
sexually active daughter or adulterous house wife. Honour based crime were known in the
medieval Europe where early Jewish law mandated death by stoning an adulterous wife and
her partner. Even today the practice is most commonly associated with regions like North
Africa, Middle East and in some Asian Countries as well.
An honour killing or shame killing is the homicide of a member of a family by other
members, due to the perpetrators belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonour to the
family or has violated the principle of the family or of the religion, usually for reasons such as
refusing to enter in an arranged marriage, being in a relationship disapproved by the family,
having sex outside the marriage, becoming the victim of rape, dressing in ways deemed to be
inappropriate and so on.
This Article is an attempt to make a comparative study of the different legal systems of the
world on Honour Killing, to find out the causes of such killing which is deep rooted in
different social structure and to provide suggestive measures that may be adopted to update the
law in order to prevent this social menace.
Introduction:
Sharif Kanaana, professor of anthropology at Birzeit University states that honour killing is “a
complicated issue that cuts deep into the history of Arab society.” The notion of honour killing
and there justification for violence and killing is not limited to any particular society or region.
Indeed, honour and honour based violence are reflected in historical events of many countries,
and in many works of literature. For instance, duelling was a key practice through which
claims of masculine honour were made, maintained and understood in western societies.
In England the fifth wife of Henry VIII was beheaded based on the allegation of adultery. In
British literature, Shakespeare’s Desdemona was killed on allegation of infidelity and Romeo
and Juliet tracked an ancient family feud over honour. King Aurther and the Knights of the
Round Table centred on notion of honour.
Mr. Debabrata Roy, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, the ICFAI University, Tripura.
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