`  == My Draft of Kaithal honour killing case ==  The Kaithal honour killing case is an honour killing of newly-married Manoj Banwala and Babli in June 2007 after a ‘khap panchayat' (caste-based council among Jats) in their Karora village in Kaithal district, Haryana, passed a decree prohibiting marriage against societal norms. Both belonged to the Banwala gotra, a Jat community. Hence, they were declared brother and sister, though not directly related, and their marriage was declared invalid and incestuous. When the couple refused to abide by the ruling and got married, they were abducted and killed by the bride's relatives.  After the verdict of the Khap panchayat, the state government raised no concern. According to Home Minister P. Chidambaram, the UPA-led central government is to propose an amendment to the Indian Penal Code to outlaw honour killings.  In March 2010, a Karnal district court ordered the execution of the five perpetrators in this case, the first time a court in Haryana has ordered justice be served in an honour killing case. The court gave life sentence to the khap head who ordered the killings but did not participate, while the driver in the kidnapping was sentenced to seven years.  ==Murder==  on April 2007.]] On April 6, 2007, Manoj Banawal, the owner of an electronics repair shop at Kaithal, eloped with Babli, a resident of the same village, to Chandigarh and applied for a registered marriage on May 31, 2007. They secretly married and started living in Karnal. Unhappy with the marriage, Babli's family asked the local khap panchayat to intervene, which dissolved the marriage. Families in Manoj's village were ordered not to talk to the couple. Manoj moved with Babli to another village and asked the police for help, which accompanied them to a Kaithal court on June 15, 2007. The judge ordered police protection for the two.  After the trial, Manoj and Babli, accompanied by police assigned to them for protection, left for Chandigarh. The police left them at Pipli and slipped away. Suspecting foul play, Manoj and Babli did not continue toward Chandigarh but instead boarded a bus for Karnal at Pipli. According to a statement filed by Chandrapati, Manoj's mother, around 3:40 p.m., she received a call from a phone booth in Pipli from Babli, who said that she and Manoj were headed to Chandigarh, while her family members were trailed them, and that the police were no longer with them. She added that the police forced them off their bus when she pointed out that two of her relatives had got onto it. She said that they would try to take a bus to Delhi and would call them later. This was the last time Manoj's family heard from the couple.  In the meantime, as the bus left Pipli, the accused following them, and stopped a packed Haryana Roadways bus, at 4.30 pm near Raipur Jatan village (near Butana), some 20 km from Pipli in Karnal district, and then whisked away in a Scorpio SUV driven Mandeep Singh . Later Chanderpati, Manoj’s mother, alleged unauthorised withdrawal of the couples’ security team of five police officers, headed by the then station house officer (SHO) Jasbir Singh, in defiance of directions issued to them by district and sessions judge (DSJ) of Kaithal . On receiving no further news, Chandrapati's nephew Narender Singh traveled to Pipli to make further inquiries at local police stations, and found a kidnapping complaint at the Butana police station in Karnal district, filed by a road contractor; later when he traced the contractor, and showed him a picture of the couple, he recognized the couple, confirming family's fears.  After their kidnapping, on the same day the couple were beaten and while Babli's brother Suresh forced her to consume poisonous pesticide, other three family members pushed Manoj to the ground, and then her uncle Rajinder pulled the noose around Manoj's and strangled him in front of her . A few days later, their mutilated bodies were fished out of Barwala Link Canal in Hisar district on June 23, with their hands and feet tied by Kheri Chowki police, and after postmortem, which revealed that Babli had been poisoned while Manoj was strangulated to death  , the bodies were cremated as unclaimed. Later, the family identified them by their clothes, and the six accused were arrested and investigations were started. The reason behind the killing - all inhabitants in this village in Kaithal district, about 10,000, belong to the same caste of Banwala (Berwal), a Jat community and marrying within the caste is considered a ``sacrilege`` .  Subsequently, Chandrapati, widow mother of the boy filed an FIR regarding the kidnapping at the Bhutana police station on June 20, which police did after initial reluctance due to intense media pressure. Only other people battling in the case were Manoj's younger sister Seema, a school going younger brother and nephew Narendra Singh, all of them faced social boycott from the villagers in coming years, as the trial continued for 33 months and 41 witnesses deposed in the case during 50 hearings.  ==Court judgment== On the March 29, 2010, Kaithal District court found the accused guilty of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and d