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Shakti Vahini v. Union of India and Others

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Reported as [2018] 3 S.C.R. 770
Bench Dipak Misra, A. M. Khanwilkar and Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud JJ.
Decided 27 March 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that this is wholly illegal and has to be ruthlessly stamped out.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Honour Crimes: Writ petition – Seeking directions to State Governm ents and Central Government to take preventive steps to comb at honour crimes; to submit State and National Plan of Action to curb such crimes; and seeking direction to the State Governments t o constitute special cells and to launch prosecution in such cases – Held: Any kind of torture or torment or ill-treatment in the name of honour that tantamounts to atrophy of choice of an individual relating to love and marriage by any assembly, whatsoever nomen clature it assumes, is illegal and cannot be allowed – Consent of the

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to · 5 mentioned · 1 explained

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