Industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal supported the Haryana khap panchayats' (caste councils) demand for amending the Hindu Marriage Act to ban marriages within the same 'gotra' or sub caste.
A Karnal court had sentenced five people to death and one person to life imprisonment for killing a couple who had married despite belonging to the same gotra.
Khap panchayats had earlier announced a siege of Jindal's home in Kurukshetra in case he did not support their demand.
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