Kingston: Three members of an Afghan Canadian family were found guilty of the 'honor killing' of three siblings and a fourth relative on Sunday after a high-profile trial that has fascinated Canadians. A jury in Kingston, Ontario, found the three -- husband and wife Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their eldest son Hamed Mohammad Shafia -- guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. Their victims were three of...
11:12 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Film: 'Land Gold Women'; Cast: Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Chris Villiers and Hassani Shapi; Writer-Director: Avantika Hari; Rating: *** 1/2 There is a nip in the British air. The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers. But honour killing in 'civilized' England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of...
07:18 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Noting that the incident was 18 years old, the Supreme Court has refused to enhance the five years imprisonment punishment for three persons accused of strangulating to death their sister and her boy friend Gurnam Singh in Punjab's Ferozpur district. A bench of justices VS Sirpurkar and TS Thakur refused to interfere with the Punjab and Haryana High Court order reducing the life sentence to five years as...
06:46 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Holding honour killings as a slur on the nation and a barbaric, feudal practice that ought to be stamped out, the Supreme Court on Monday directed courts to view such cases as "rarest of rare" category for awarding death penalty to the convicts. "In our opinion honour killings, for whatever reason, come within the category of rarest of rare cases deserving death punishment. It is time to stamp...
05:10 PM, May 09, 2011
Zindagi Live brings up the issue of 'honour killings' by the parents, siblings and the society the victims have lived in. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 05, 2010
New Delhi: Notwithstanding a spate of so called honour killings in northern states, a new study shows that a massive 92 per cent of the people in this region disapprove of such crimes. The study commissioned by National Commission of Women interviewed both urban and rural people out of which 46 per cent agreed that the Khap Panchayats or self-styled caste councils were raising right issues, 48 per cent agreed...
10:36 AM, Aug 15, 2010
![Father arrested for daughter's honour killing]( "Father arrested for daughter's honour killing")
The victim, Gurjit Kaur, 20, was first strangulated to death and then given electric shocks to make it appear as a case of electrocution. ...
09:38 AM, Jul 25, 2010
The boy's family alleges that the murder could have been avoided, had the Noida police acted on their complaint. ...
09:06 PM, Jul 19, 2010
Distant cousins 21-year-old Ishtiyak Ali and 16-year-old Shabnam were in love. ...
02:28 PM, Jul 13, 2010
At a meeting in Muzaffarnagar, several village bodies from three states, sounded a defiant note. ...
08:49 AM, Jul 12, 2010
On June 14, 2010, Yogesh (20) and Asha (19) were brutally killed in the name of honour in Delhi. ...
02:22 PM, Jul 11, 2010
Honour killings have been rampant in orthodox and socially backward groups in many countries of the world. ...
11:31 AM, Jul 11, 2010
Teenaged boy and a girl's deaths may be a case of honour killings: police. ...
01:21 PM, Jul 04, 2010
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