In these matters, everyone will have an opinion, usually strong ones.
There is no honour in killing. The act of killing is a sign of weakness in the killer and those who sanction it.
The matter is a tragedy, when a human beings life is lost and the effect on one’s family, near and dear ones is unimaginable. There is then tendency to allocate blame, on the family, the village community, even the victims.
In our Jat culture, there have been historically very strict rules about marriage, both the mothers and fathers, at the least, Goth being avoided. The dadi's goth was also avoided. Marriage with the same village was also avoided.
The purpose was clear, to keep gene lines, widespread, and to avoid inter cousin marriage.
Is this to say that no case was this tradition broken! Probably was, but the then the strictures were quite strict, one being that those who broken these rules were ostracized from the village community.
Did liaisons between people in the same village occur, one must expect yes, but they would be surreptitious, and when they came to light the strictures were serious too.
Now the village community is breaking down. the panchayats are ineffective. The younger generation does not carry the same respect for their elders , they did in earlier times.
In our modern context our problem becomes, how do we address the problem?
Today society is not the same as it was 50 or 100 years ago, society is much more mobile, and not interdependent.
The old traditions are breaking down, so is marriage within the same village, but into different goths acceptable or not?
When one looks at a village excess of violence, one has to also understand the daily conditions in a village. The anonymity of a city does not exist, and everything that goes on, is a raw engagement, with everything being common knowledge. The family or person is living in the glare of open sight, and all actions are in full sight, and criticized.
In this situation, people lose their temper, and anger takes over. A case like this will cause feeling of insult, and hot headed emotions will override a calmer brain.
Is there a solution? One would guess not, - hot headedness will lead to anger and violence and killing, which is a crime.
At the same time we should keep in mind that these are isolated cases, certainly not representative of the norm.
Ravi Chaudhary