Who rules Haryana?
has drifted a step further towards lawlessness after angry villagers lynched a youth, right in the presence of the police, for marrying a girl of the same gotra. A warrant officer of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who had been drafted to help the husband bring back his wife from her parents house in Singhwala village of Jind district, was rescued by the police but was injured. The youth was simply killed because of the failure of the district police to intervene effectively and forcefully. The police would have acted firmly had the state government continuously not been a mute spectator to the running of a parallel system of justice by the khap panchayats. Politicians belonging to the ruling party as well as the opposition parties have, over the years, watched in silence and helplessness the khap panchayats usurping the authority of the state and delivering their own brand of cruelty passed on audaciously by the khaps as justice. Lack of decisive action by the successive government
