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POPSIndia caste councils back men over 'honour killings'
'Ultimatum' Caste leaders and protesters held a meeting in the town of Kurukshetra in Haryana state. "We will appeal to the government to amend the Hindu Marriage Act," the Times of India website quoted Bhalle Ram, head of Bainiwal village caste council in the state, as saying. "We are giving the Indian government an ultimatum to effect these changes," he said. Protesters are threatening to block the road between the Indian capital, Delhi, and major cities like Chandigarh and Ambala. They say they will appeal against the sentence handed to the six men. Caste leaders say that by local tradition people within the same sub-caste are considered to be siblings. The young couple - Manoj and Babli - apparently fell into this category. They were kidnapped and killed a month after they eloped while they were travelling on a bus in Haryana in 2007. Their bodies were discovered later. Those sentenced to death by the Haryana court last month were all relatives of the gir
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