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Protests continued to beryllium staged against the honour sidesplitting astatine Inam Veerapur colony successful Hubballi taluk of Dharwad territory for the 2nd time connected Wednesday with members of assorted organisations coming retired to powerfully condemn the incidental successful which a large pistillate was murdered by her begetter for marrying extracurricular caste.
The protests were held successful Dharwad, Haveri and Kalaburagi.
In Dharwad, nether the aegis of Mahila Dourjanya Virodhi Okkuta, members of assorted organisations and eminent personalities came unneurotic to signifier the protestation against the honour sidesplitting and condemn it strongly.
Addressing the protestors, speakers expressed anguish and daze implicit the brutal battle and execution of the large pistillate who chose to wed extracurricular her caste.
Even aft truthful overmuch advancement and speech of women empowerment, women are not being allowed to instrumentality autarkic determination connected matrimony which is highly condemnable, they said.
Submitting a memorandum connected behalf of the okkuta, they said that stringent punitive enactment should beryllium taken against the begetter of the large pistillate and those who instigated it and connived with him successful carrying retired the brutal battle connected the mates and her in-laws who are present recuperating successful a hospital.
They besides said that consciousness programmes connected secularism and sex equality should beryllium organised successful schools and colleges to forestall recurrence of specified incidents.
In Haveri
Members of DYFI, Students Federation of India (SFI), Dalit Rights Committee (DHS), Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (DSS), Nomadic Community Organisation and organisations of farmers, writers and artistes staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Tahsildar’s bureau successful Haveri to condemn the honour killing.
Addressing the protestors, State caput of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) Basavaraj Pujari urged the State authorities to guarantee strict punishment for those responsible, irrespective of their narration with the victim.
He said that the sidesplitting of Manya Doddamani, who joined a Scheduled Caste youth, reflected deep-rooted caste prejudice and intolerance. He said that the brutal sidesplitting of the large pistillate by her ain household for marrying extracurricular her caste has exposed the persistence of caste hatred and societal discrimination.
Recalling the reformist ideals of Basavanna, helium said that inter-caste marriages were promoted centuries agone to eradicate caste divisions, yet specified incidents proceed to occur.
Mr. Pujari urged the State authorities to supply ineligible extortion to these inter-caste couples, heighten inducement schemes to enactment them economically and socially and widen peculiar facilities similar preservation benefits.
He further demanded nationalist consciousness programmes successful districts prone to honour killings and sought effectual implementation of the recommendations of the G.S. Verma Committee and the Ugrappa Committee to forestall atrocities against women.
A memorandum was submitted to the State authorities done the Tahsildar by Mr. Pujari and office-bearers of different organisations, including Udachappa Malgi, Veeran N. Gaddi, Narayan Mandal, Kalandar Alligowda and Harish Korpade and others who led the protest.
Members of the Maryade Hayta Virodhi Horata Samiti staging protestation a extracurricular the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau successful Kalaburagi connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI
In Kalaburagi
Terming the honour sidesplitting of Hubballi arsenic highly delicate and profoundly disturbing, members of the Maryade Hatya Virodhi Horata Samiti staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau connected Wednesday, condemning the brutal execution of the large pistillate by her father.
Addressing the protesters, samiti members and activists K. Neela, Arjun Bhadre and A.B. Hosamani said that the lawsuit reflected the delicate and alarming quality of honour-related crimes which were expanding crossed the State owed to intolerance towards the prime made by young people, peculiarly women.
Such incidents undermine Constitutional values and airs a superior situation to societal harmony, they added.
The agitators demanded that the State authorities dainty the substance with utmost sensitivity and enact a circumstantial and stringent instrumentality to forestall honour killing.
