BANGALORE: Calling upon the members of the women organisations to take a call on honour killing, former Justice MF Saldhana on Wednesday said that with increasing incidence of honour killing, the women organisations can adopt ’militant approach’ and generate enough noise at the social level to stop these atrocities. He was speaking at the two days national convention on crime against women, organised by the All India Mahila Samskritika Sanghatane (AIMSS).“Rather than waiting for the government and police to act, people should make big noise socially and ensure that action is taken and not even a single atrocity goes unreported. It will stop this heinous crime,” he added. However, in the absence of enforcement of law in India, there are just 27 court cases of honour killing from the year 2006 to 2011. No charge sheet is filed in majority of the cases. “The acquittal rate is 100 per cent and conviction rate is zero in the country. The reason attributed to it are the influential people in the Khap panchayat and lack of witness in the court,” he added. The convention witnessed the participation of delegates from 19 states.
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