An Indian couple from Punjab have won the right to stay in Australia after applying for refugee status on the grounds that they may be subjected to honour killing in India for an inter-caste love marriage.
According to Canberra Times, the couple’s plea for refugee status was rejected by Australian immigration and refugee authorities but subsequently a court in Canberra has ruled in their favour.The pair, a Sikh and a member of the Hindu backward caste, married secretly in India in 2007 after the man’s parents refused to accept the relationship on religious and caste grounds.
