Over 100 village mahapanchayat members met at Garhmukteshwar, 60 km from here, on Thursday and discussed same gotra marriages. They decided that such marriages will not be tolerated at any cost and the couples will be separated forcefully if they get married against their diktat.
The mahapanchayat was headed by Bhartiya Kishan Union leader Dinesh Kumar and presided over by Neeraj Kumar.
The Khap panchayat also demanded amendment in Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, disallowing marriages between same gotra.
Khap Panchayats have been facing flak from all quarters for denouncing marriages among same clan couples.
Earlier also on May 14, a Khap Panchayat had issued death threat to a couple, who later married against their diktat.
The panchayat had barred Jaivinder, a resident of Chithera village, from marrying Manisha of Bisnoli village claiming their marriage will be against local societal norms.
Although the boy and the girl belonged to different gotras or subcastes, the panchayat ruled that as residents of Chithera consider girls belonging to Bhatti gotra as their sisters, Jaivinder could not marry Manisha who belongs to Bhatti subcaste. Javinder belongs to Bainsla gotra.
The panchayat had threatened to kill them if they went ahead with the marriage.
On two occasions in the recent past, the panchayat had forcibly cancelled the marriage of local boys with Bhatti girls.