Rajasthan Governor Sends Back Gehlot-Era Lynching, Honour Killing and Other Bills to Assembly

Rajasthan Governor Sends Back Gehlot-Era Lynching, Honour Killing and Other Bills to Assembly

While returning the 2019 bill on honour killings, the governor flagged that the draft relied on the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, both of which have been replaced.

Rajasthan Governor Returns Honour Killing Prevention Bill Passed by Gehlot Govt

Jaipur: Rajasthan Governor Haribhau Bagade has returned the Honour Killing Prevention Bill passed during the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government (2018–23), citing legal inconsistencies and overlap with repealed criminal laws. The bill, approved in 2019, aimed to prevent honour killings and related violence by defining unlawful assemblies, criminal intimidation, and threats to personal liberty—especially in cases involving marriage by choice. It…