honour killing

Naeem, resident of Uttar Pradesh, suspected that the minor victim, who had already twice left her home with her lover, would do so again.

Dalit man Suraj found hanging from a tree in Fatehganj West of Bareilly six days after he had eloped with a minor Muslim girl

"You married out a girl without our approval, we won't let you go alive today," shouted the Muslim girl's relatives before mercilessly attacking the Hindu youth with axes, iron rods, sticks and knives in Dwarka, Gujarat

Mohammad Shahid killed his 18-year-old daughter Suhana in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh by slicing her neck, in a horrific episode of honour killing.

Miffed over their teenage daughter's affair, parents Mohammad Shafi and Khatoon Jahan strangulated and killed her. They then tried to pass off the murder as suicide and bury the body to cover up the crime. Uttarakhand police arrested the duo

According to the SP, the couple had spoken to local police personnel about the threat to their lives posed by Chandni's family members and had been warned that now was not the time to return.

A Kohistan girl in Pakistan was killed by her own family after a video featuring her and other boys went viral on social media.

The 14-year-old girl's father Abees Muhammed hit his daughter with an iron rod and forcibly fed her herbicide on October 29.

A Nihang Sikh man named Dalbir Singh was arrested for killing his teenage daughter and dragging the body by tying it to his motorbike

The girl was then brutally beaten by her father and brother resulting in her death. She was later buried in a nearby piece of land on August 5. The neighbours and other relatives of the family were told that the girl was ill and that she died due to lack of treatment.