Certain Cases Of Honor Killings In India:-  Less than a year ago, Bhavna Yadav (21), a Delhi University student, was reportedly strangled by her parents for marrying outside her caste.                             In 2014, a chunni was reportedly used to strangle Pachala Deepthi, a software engineer from Hyderabad. She was allegedly killed by her family for marrying a colleague.This year, 25-year old Kasturi and her husband Basavraj were stabbed to death in Bangalore , allegedly by her  brother, soon after they eloped from their homes.  Even a fairly liberal metropolis like Mumbai has had more than its fair share of honor killings in recent years. Take for instance 19-year-old Tabassum Khatun, who fell in love with her father's paying guest, Imran Khan. Her father caught them together one night in 2012 and banged the girl's head against a wall.She died soon after.  Last year, a 15-year old from UP who ran away with his 19-year old girlfriend and landed in Mumbai, was killed by the girl's Mumbai-based father.                                 Three years ago, Mehtab Alam, a garment trader in Kolkata, chopped off his sister's head with a sword and took it to the police station. He was furious that his sister, Nolofer Bibi, had run away  with a rickshaw-puller. C Parthasarthy , a software engineer in his 20's married a girl from another caste,was abducted, killed and set on fire in Chennai in 2011. The men arrested for the murder included the boy's father-in-law.     These incidents point to a backlash against the social changes that families are struggling to deal with.  Urban areas have witnessed an increased intermingling of boys and girls, and a more secular, liberal culture. The work participation of women has increased and the age of marriage has risen. A combination of all these factors results in more freedom for young people, who want to choose their own partners. Choice-based marriages are what challenge traditional norms, resulting in a huge backlash There are many cases of couples being punished for defiance, but most honour killings are “punishment“ for breaking the caste boundary . “We need to understand how big a deal caste is. It is not merely cultural, but an intrinsic part of the social and economic fabric, cutting across religions. You can't maintain the caste system unless you control women,“ says Kavita Krishnan, secretary , All India Progressive Women's Association. “You can't look at urban and rural society separately . People migrate from rural areas to urban areas, bringing their cultural and social norms with them. Caste structures cut across religion. Families, whether urban or rural, are generally intolerant of a girl marrying beneath her caste, class or status, she says. While honor killings are an extreme form of violence perpetrated on couples. Not all these cases end in a terrible death. More often than not families manage to force girls from picking their own partners.                   There is very little outrage over these cases because communities are more or less agreed on the need to rein in women's autonomy. “Girls are often forcefully married off against their wishes. Across caste, society and religion , when it comes to marriage,a women's choice is considered negligible. This forms the background for honor killings in India. Irrespective of class or levels of education, families involved in honour killings virtually never see themselves as criminals or offenders. You rarely see any feeling of  guilt .