Khap panchayats

Protest against the decision to increase the age of marriage of girls

A few weeks ago, the central government increased the marriage age of girls to 21 years, but there was a lot of protest in the Khap Panchayat in Haryana regarding this. Watch this report of Zee News

Jan 02, 2022, 22:10 PM IST

Honour killings a social evil, khap panchayats can't interfere with marriages: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that Khap panchayats can't interfere with marriages and that a special law on honour killings is needed.

Mar 27, 2018, 21:13 PM IST

Honour killings: Supreme Court seeks suggestions from parties, 'khap'

The top court had also said that as a pilot project, it would examine the situation in three districts of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh where the Khap Panchayats were active.

Aug 21, 2017, 19:11 PM IST

Khap Panchayats a useful instrument of society: Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar

Khap Panchayats are a "useful instrument" of society and carry out social reforms and one or two mistakes don't make them wrong as a whole, according to Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar .

Jan 31, 2016, 10:34 AM IST