Click to play videoNew Delhi: Baby Ankush - the infant from Haryana’s Karnal town – has been reunited with his parents after a long ordeal.
But for those defying social norms life has never been easy. Marrying outside one's community has always been a taboo and many a time it hasn't had a happy ending. Here’s a look at other instances when Indian tradition has been on collision course with legal rights.
On June 18, 2007, Manoj a Dalit and Rimpy, hailing from the upper class Saini community married each other despite great opposition from Rimpy's village, only to be sentenced to death by a Haryana panchayat a few days later for defying community norms.
And if marrying outside one's caste is an unpardonable crime, then marrying within one's gotra is also equally unimaginable.
In June this year, Anita and Manoj both of the same gotra eloped to get married. Back home in Bulandshahr the girl's brother announced a reward of Rs 50,000 to anyone giving information about the couple. The panchayat even went to the extent of cutting the water supply to the boy's house.
Inter-religious marriages have invited similar wrath. In April 2007 Mohammed Umer and Priyanka faced death threats from the Bajrang Dal even though the marriage was recognised by the Bombay High Court. Soon after, a Bhopal Panchayat framed a law forbidding girls from talking on cellphones, riding on two-wheelers and from wearing scarves. All this to prevent them from getting wooed by Muslim boys.
On August 24, 2007, 24-year-old Ramesh who had eloped with Asha, a girl in his neighbourhood, was chained to a tractor and dragged around a village in Palanpur in Gujarat before being axed to death by the girl's relatives.
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