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Women’s Lives Ruined by Honor Killings
There are innumerable cases of young women thrown into canals, stabbed or shot to death by their fathers, brothers and husbands. Very few women protest against the evil practice of honor killing in their families which is most often accepted as a norm even in educated circles.
Sushma Tiwari survived a vengeful honor killing by her brother who brutally murdered her husband, her father-in-law and two minors from her husband’s side and seriously injured two others in 2004 near their home in Mumbai. A pregnant Sushma luckily escaped because she was away visiting a relative.
Sushma, hailing from a Brahmin family of Uttar Pradesh in India was supposed to have brought dishonor to her family by marrying a man from a lower caste from Kerala. In 2009, the Supreme Court reduced her brother’s death penalty to 25-year imprisonment. Sushma is now fighting a legal battle to see that her brother is awarded the highest deterrent sentence for the brutal murders. Speaking at the National Young Women’s conference organized by the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Sushma argued that by reducing the sentence, the Supreme Court ruling was “sending a wrong message to those who wished to marry out of caste.”
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