The federation has called around 300 Jat leaders and experts from all over the country to discuss and check the menace. Among the leaders is the Haryana’s former DGP MS Malik who is also heading the federation. On honour killings, he said, “We strongly urge that nobody should be allowed to take the law into their hands.” Eminent personalities like Pritam Pal Singh, former judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Chief Justice of Pakistan among others will grace the seminar.
 
It is to be noted that in India 5000 females are killed every year in so-called ‘honour killing’ and twelve couples alone in Haryana are forced to leave their villages, according to a report. This brutal act is done by khap panchayat or caste panchayat, a court that protects the traditional norms of a particular caste in a village. This panchayat stands against ‘inter- caste’ and ‘same gotra’ marriages and even ‘love marriages’ in a village. And if anybody is found violating the norm, one is either killed or thrown out of the village along with his or her family.

 
Speaking on behalf of the federation, MS Malik said, “Marriages in nearby villages and inter-caste matrimonies should be allowed.”  Though he opines that there should be more relaxations on love marriages yet he feels that marriage within village is a volatile issue. However, the federation will put an effort to bring a way out on this issue as well on the said seminar.

In the meeting, the federation will discuss on the illegal use of laws by the khap panchayat, how the violence can be curbed, role of the government on the menace, relaxation on marriages and the like. This meeting will prove worthy in reducing or perhaps eradicating  honour killings as Haryana alone has witnessed a lot of reported as well as unreported honour killing cases in recent months. The move is timely as honour killing has become rampage in other states like Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan too, apart from the worst affected Haryana.