article_snippet.sent: India has witnessed honour killings - where couples are targeted because couples families or communities disapprove of couples relationships - for centuries, especially in rural areas.
article_snippet.sent: especially in rural areas are carried out by close relatives or village elders to protect what is seen as the family's reputation and pride in a hereditary-based caste system.
article_snippet.sent: The latest incident comes two days after Haryana police arrested a man and his son for killing a man and his son teenage daughter over an inter-caste relationship with a boy.
article_snippet.sent: In 2013, a man was beheaded and a man wife was killed by his wife own family for eloping within the same clan.