‘Khap’-ital punishment: Danger of parallel ‘courts’?

The government says 300 plus deaths per year are because of the so-called ‘honour’ killings; activists however put the figure at 1000 per year. Is political patronage of all parties keeping anti-women, anti-Dalit diktats of parallel courts like Khaps alive? On We The people, we debate the clash between ‘custom’ and individual freedom, does India need separate law for khaps?

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