Psycho-social perspectives of honour killing

Pages: 871-873
Pratibha Singh (PG Department of Psychology, Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, Bihar)

The Honour killing have assumed dangerous and in-human acts. The term honour killing is a contradictory word, honour means a person or an institution for spreading his or her name and worth before the nation or world. suppose specific community appreciates any cruel activity, in this situation we used to say such practice should not be continued in modern scenario. So how can we add the term honour with the murder or killing. On one hand we talk about women empowerment equal right, growth and bring the millennia to our glorious country and on the other hand we take the initiative of wearing our society with such a heinous crime like honour killing. It Not only the crime but the name itself of the crime that discussed the learn’d and the rational human being of the Indian society. The lose on applies to killing of both males and females in culture that practice it.