In yet another case of suspected honour killing, the Tirunelveli district police on Friday arrested four persons on charges of murdering a Dalit youth who fell in love with a caste Hindu girl.

According to police sources, S. Elango (25) of Periyar Nagar in Erode was invited for a discussion by his girlfriend's maternal uncle and his former employer Saravanan. When he went to see him in a village near Munnirpallam on August 5, 2011, Saravanan and his associates took Elango to an isolated place and murdered him. The body was thrown into a pond.

Fighting the scourge of honour killing is a constant political struggle against the patriarchal set-up which we (the people of South Asia) inherited from history, said veteran Indian journalist and human rights activist Jatin Desai on Sunday.

He was speaking at the launching ceremony of the book ‘Honour’ and Women’s Rights – South Asian Perspectives’, which was held at the Karachi Press Club.The book is a compilation of 15 research papers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the South Asian Diasporas living in the UK, US and Canada.

The brother of a young Kurdish woman admitted Monday to gunning her down in a so-called "honour killing" that shocked Germany, at the start of the trial of five siblings, news agency DPA reported.

As women's rights groups rallied outside the regional court in the western city of Detmold, 22-year-old Osman Ozmen said he had "lost control" and shot his sister Arzu, 18, in November, according to the report.

Her sister Sirin, 27, and brother Kirer, 25, confessed in court to helping kidnap her. Prosecutors said they were enraged by Arzu's relationship with a German man.

In the first reported case of honour killing in Indore, a man strangled his daughter after failing to convince her against eloping with her boyfriend, walked to the police station and "confessed" to the crime during the early hours of Sunday.

Police said Shivnarayan Verma (45), a boiler operator in a factory, killed his daughter Jyoti (19) - who had recently appeared for the Class 12 Madhya Pradesh board examination - around 2am and reached the police station an hour later.

Cases of honour-killings were more widespread in February this year against the preceding month as 24 cases were reported in 16 districts against 19 recorded in 12 districts in January, says a report compiled by Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen).

The report, which was released on Friday, said that despite government's efforts to eradicate the practice, all four provinces reported at least one such case.

Twelve cases were reported in nine districts in Punjab, nine in four Sindh districts, two in as many districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and one in a Balochistan district.
Fafen monitors visited 78 offices of District Police Officers (DPOs) to gather information on FIRs registered for 27 offences falling under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

Another person has been arrested in the investigation of the Landskrona killing on Monday in southern Sweden, where a 19-year-old woman was stabbed to death.

“This is a woman born in 1973. She was apprehended at 6pm on Wednesday and was formally arrested at 8.45pm," said police spokesperson Eva-Lotta Hermansson Truedsson to news agency TT.

According to prosecutor Magnus Larsson, the arrested woman could be described as close to the victim.

He said that the woman is under suspicion of instigating the murder and that it is possible that the circle of suspects could widen.

After a young Landskrona woman was stabbed to death Monday in what is suspected of being an honour-related killing, organisations are questioning whether enough was done to protect the 19-year-old.

On Monday a 19-year-old Landskrona woman was found stabbed to death in her apartment. Police are holding a 16-year-old boy, a relative of the victim's arrested near the scene of the crime, on suspicion of murder.

A 39-year-old woman is also suspected of being invovled. She was taken into custody on Wednesday night on suspicion of murder and instigation to murder.
Now the government and organisations working with domestic violence are questioning whether the municipality did enough to protect her.

MANSEHRA: The death of a teenage girl by her six-year-old sisterin Bhonja village raised quite a few questions by human rights activists on Tuesday.

While the 14-year-old girl’s father claims that she was shot dead by her sister who was cleaning her father’s 12-bore licensed shotgun”by accident,” human rights activists say they are not ready to accept this “preposterous claim”.
According to the police, the teenage girl was busy in her household chores when she was accidently shot in the chest by her younger sister.

The girl died instantly, said a police official quoting her father. He disclosed that the father has not registered a case with the police and has even refused to conduct an autopsy of the victim.

The accused banged the 19-year-old girl's head repeatedly against the wall when he found her meeting his 21-yr-old paying guest secretly at night, against his wishes.

In a fit of rage, a man killed his 19-year-old daughter in Govandi on Sunday, for having slighted his ‘honour’ by involving herself in a romantic affair with a paying guest who hailed from a ‘lower caste’. Cops said that soon after the murder, the accused tried to mislead investigators by misinforming doctors and cops that the girl had succumbed to tuberculosis.

According to the police, the deceased, 19-year-old Tabassum Khatun, was involved in a romantic relationship with her father’s paying guest Imran Khan (21), for the past four months. The two had expressed their desire to get married to Khatun’s parents, who were dead against the idea, as they considered that Khan was from a lower caste.

Chennai: In a case of honor killing, a sexagenarian and her daughter were arrested after being charged with murder of her granddaughter, four years ago in a village in Tamil Nadu.

The ‘upper caste’ Hindu woman was enraged over her granddaughter Thiruchelvi eloping with a dalit Christian in June 2008 in Paramakudi village in Ramanathapuram district.

According to police, Thiruchelvi, a grade XII student, of Kalaiyoor village was in love with Daniel Raj which her family did not approve.