The ruling came on a plea by NGO Shakti Vahini urging the top court to address the issue of bodies like the khap panchayats issuing dictates and interfering in marriages which does not meet their approval.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it would set up a high-level committee consisting of senior police officers to deal with issues relating to intervention in marriages by bodies such as khap panchayats.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it would set up a high-level committee consisting of senior police officers to deal with issues relating to intervention in marriages by bodies such as khap panchayats.
The top court said that if an adult man and woman marry, no khap, panchayat or society can question them.
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New Delhi: Government on Thursday termed all 'customary courts' like Khap panchayats as illegal and unconstitutional and asked state governments to check such set up as it was a serious issue.Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda
Jind: To use mobile phones and wear jeans is the fundamental right of a girl and no panchayat should put a ban on it, chief of a Khap Panchayat in Haryana has said. Kandela Khap
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today equated Khap Panchayats with organisations like NGO, saying that they are part of state's culture. “Khap Panchayats are like NGO as we have Resident Welfare Associations... they
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New Delhi, July 14: The JD(U) today hit out at Khap Panchayats over the recent incident of a village Panchayat in Uttar Pradesh issuing a diktat on the movement of women, saying strict action should
Mumbai July 26: Four days before the release of 'Khap A Story of Honour Killing', based on Haryana's khap panchayats, Khap leaders have approached the Haryana government to ban the film as they feel it
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