Freedom to Marry: The Constitutional Choice and KHAP Panchayats
Published By: International Institute for Population Sciences | Published Date: May, 01 , 2013This paper talks about the right to marry as an essential freedom of all human beings as it relates to their right to self-expression and their right to associate with a person of their choice. The author where also talk about the interference by Khap Panchayats on the ground that they oppose intra gotra marriages for scientific and genetic reasons, namely that such marriages reduce the gene pool and have a recessive health impact on the population. In other words, on the ground that it is not in the interest of public health. This is surely an argument of concern to population experts, geneticists, demographers and health experts.
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