Coming down heavily on khap panchayats, the Justice JS Verma Committee on Wednesday said means adopted by them have assumed "unreasonable proportions" and asked the government to ensure such bodies do not interfere with choices made by people regarding marriage. ...
08:12 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Khap Panchayats on Monday came in the firing line after the Supreme Court took serious note of their directives denying women the right to carry mobile phones. The apex court questioned the directive as going against the law. ...
01:32 PM, Jan 14, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday invited 'Khap Panchayats' to hear their views before issuing any order to stop them from harassing and killing couples, particularly women in name of family honour for entering into inter-caste or intra-gotra marriages. ...
05:48 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The Centre has filed a plea before the Supreme Court seeking that khap panchayats be monitored. The Centre appealed to the apex court to put in place a mechanism that will monitor the violation of women's rights by khap panchayats. ...
01:17 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Sonepat (Haryana): A Khap Mahapanchayat held here has appealed to the Centre and Haryana government to grant 'Khaps' the status of Lok Adalats as their decisions on various issues were "unanimous." The meeting, attended by about 70 Khaps, said on Saturday that they were open to government representatives taking part in such meetings and voicing their opinions in the debates. They also demanded that marriage in the same gotra should...
05:37 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Chandigarh: A Mahapanchayat attended by several Khaps in Sonepat district on Saturday refuted the idea of a Khap leader that marriageable age of girls should be brought down to 16 years, saying the suggestion was "individual in nature" and should not be seen as stand of the body. The Mahapanchayat, attended by several Khaps or caste councils, did not endorse the suggestion to help curb increasing instances of rape in...
08:50 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Rohtak: Haryana's Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, which has been at the forefront of demanding reservations for Jats in government jobs, will now discuss the bizarre suggestion that the marriage age for girls be lowered to curb rising incidents of rape in the state. The supreme council is an umbrella body of khap panchayats across the state. Khaps have no legal sanction but often function like kangaroo courts and issue social...
08:26 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Sacha Khera: Taking a tough stance on the rising number of rapes in the country, especially after a spate of incidents were reported in Haryana, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said that strictest action will be taken against the culprits. Visiting the rape victims in Jind, Haryana, Sonia slammed khap panchayats saying India was a democracy and the law of the land was in the hands of the judiciary...
10:53 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Chandigarh: Infamous for their unlawful social diktats, especially against women marrying within their gotra or clan, Haryana's khap panchayats were on Sunday asked by the state government to fight atrocities against women. Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal urged social organisations and Khap panchayats "to give a befitting reply to those who indulge in atrocities against women". Bhukkal was redressing grievances of people in Jhajjar district, 300 km from Chandigarh. She...
02:53 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Terming India as world's capital for open defecation, Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said that 100,000 "bio-toilets" will be installed in about 300 backward gram panchayats in the next two years at a cost of Rs 150 crore. "We are the world's capital for open defecation. It is a matter of shame, anguish, sorrow, anger," Ramesh said, noting over 60 percent of all open...
01:22 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Poonch: To quell "rumours" about the uncertainty over establishment of a powerful panchayati raj system in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the government will soon bring a legislation to provide Constitutional status to panchayats. "In order to do away with all rumours and speculations being circulated by some people regarding the establishment of a powerful panchayat system in the state, we will provide constitutional guarantee...
02:39 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: In what could be described as 'incentive-driven' empowerment of women, as many as 254 villages in Gujarat have entrusted their panchayats entirely to women and to college-going girls in one case. Under the scheme, government gives a reward of Rs 3 lakh for all-women panchayats in villages having under-5,000 population, and of Rs 5 lakh for villages with above-5,000 population. All panchayat members including the sarpanch in these villages...
11:20 AM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: All 250,000 village panchayats in the country will be connected with broadband by mid-2012 under a $4-billion project to take the benefits of technology to the poor, tech evangelist Sam Pitroda said on Friday. "I can assure you that in 18 months every village panchayat will have broadband. It will significantly change the way we deal with people in villages," Pitroda, who also serves as the prime minister's...
05:00 PM, Jan 07, 2011
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
On
Face The Nation, Sagarika Ghose speaks to a panel of experts on the issue. ...
08:39 AM, Jun 25, 2010
The BJP has demanded setting up of fast-track courts to deal with cases of honour killings. ...
07:54 AM, Jun 24, 2010
In the meeting khaps sought support from all quarters for a ban on marriages within the same 'gotra'. ...
07:29 AM, May 24, 2010
Also on this week's episode, all the controversy surrounding Jairam Ramesh and his ministry. ...
01:12 PM, May 16, 2010
They said Khap panchayats are indulging in acts of violence against Hindu couples marrying in the same gotra. ...
03:13 PM, May 13, 2010
Haryana politicians are calling khaps' demand for a stop on same sub-caste marriage as an honoured tradition. ...
12:19 AM, May 11, 2010
