In honour of God, stop ...

AMIT SRIVASDAV and his new wife Babita Attri hold hands.

She is dressed in a bright-pink sari and looks younger than her 25 years. Amit wears a well-ironed white shirt and looks at Babita through thin steel-rim glasses.

They married without fuss or ceremony in November, 2010 but fled their families three days ago because Babita’s family had threatened to kill them both if they didn’t renounce their union. Now they’re sitting on the edge of a small bed in a house hidden in a labyrinth of Delhi backstreets hoping that they will not be found. They are from different castes, and in marrying have brought shame on their families. The only way the family’s status can be restored is for one or both of them to die in a so-called ‘honour killing’.