Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 266 · Decided 27 March 2018
Shakti Vahini v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 266 · [2018] 3 S.C.R. 770
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 231/2010
- Decided
- 27 March 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19, 21
Headnote
Honour Crimes: Writ petition - Seeking directions to State Governments and Central Government to take preventive steps to combat honour crimes; to submit State and National Plan of Action to curb such crimes; and seeking direction to the 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 nomenclature it assumes, is illegal and
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