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| On the 4th (local time) in India, a man who struck his 17-year-old daughter with an ax for having an unpleasant relationship with another man is heading to the police station with his daughter’s neck (Facebook capture) © News1 |
Human rights groups have called for a revision of the Honor Killing Act amid another terrible incident in India where a father cuts the neck of a teenage daughter with an ax.
According to Reuters news agency on the 5th (local time), police in northern India had arrested a man who beheaded his 17-year-old daughter and brought her neck to the police station to confess.
The man told the police that he saw his daughter meet a man he didn’t like and struck him with an ax in anger.
As a horrible photo of a man holding his daughter’s head was shared through social networking services (SNS), human rights groups, including women’s groups, began to again demand amendments to the special law on honor killings in India and Middle East Asia.
Human rights groups say that in South Asia, including India, and in Middle East Asia, thousands of women and girls are killed each year for damaging their family’s’honor’.
In these countries, the custom of killing family members for desecrating the household’s honor has come down.
Madhu Garg, vice president of the Uttar Pradesh branch of the All-Indian Democratic Women’s Association, said, “India daughters are considered a symbol of family honor. They have the right to choose their own life.”
He added, “There is a need for interest in those who are being ruthlessly victimized, and a separate law for honor killing must be prepared.”
In fact, in India, there have been horrible incidents, including 24 honorary murders in 2019, and about 70% of the victims are women and from the upper class.
As a countermeasure against these customs, in 2018, the Indian government recommended that police in all states install 24-hour helicopters to provide protection for those who are bullied, but to date it is known that they have not been implemented properly.