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Prohibition of crimes in the name of honour or tradition.- (1) No person or persons shall commit any acts in the name of caste, culture, custom, tradition or so-called “honour” or tradition against any person or persons on the ground that the person has transgressed cultural, caste, social or traditional norms or customs of appropriate behaviour. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1) acts which would amount to crimes in the name of honour and tradition would include but are not limited to,- (i) Causing death, physical harm or injury to either partner in the couple or anyone connected with them; (ii) Harassing the couple or either of them not to meet or associate with or live with each other, either physically or through any means of communication; (iii) Abducting the victim and / or their partner or anyone associated with them; (iv) Imposing social and economic boycott on the couple or their family or anyone associated with them; (v) Excommunicating, ostracization or forcible removal or displacement / eviction of the couple or their family or relatives from the village, town or area they live in; (vi) Asking the couple or anyone associated with them or harbouring them to pay a fine; (vii) Threatening the couple or either of them or their family or anyone associated with them of retributive action of any kind whatsoever; (viii) Individually or collectively exhorting or bringing pressure directly or indirectly upon any person or persons to prevent or disapprove of the marriage or association which is objected to, or to generate an environment of hostility towards such couple or either of them or their supporters; (ix) Forcibly declaring the couple who have got married as brother and sister; (x) Performing symbolic disownment rituals (such as thithi or equivalent death ceremonies) against a living person; (xi) Wrongfully denying or interfering with succession rights in property; (xii) Any other act or acts of harassment or intimidation, whether physical or mental or psychological against the person, the couple or persons supporting them; (xiii) Confining any person illegally, or placing them under house arrest; (xiv) Confiscation of a person’s phone, laptop and any means of communication; (xv) Freezing the bank accounts of the couple or either of them; (xvi) Causing the termination of the job of the couple or either of them by their employer; (xvii) Committing act of sexual violence or sexual harassment against any person; (xviii) Forcing or causing an abortion or miscarriage on any woman; (xix) Forced marriage of either or both persons, who are parties to an inter-caste marriage, against their consent; (xx) Forced dissolution of marriage of the couple against their consent; (xxi) Spreading hatred or defaming the couple and the family with false information among the locality or community; and (xxii) Social and economic boycott.