New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said the government was ‘actively considering’ a proposal to amend the existing law or enact a new one to tackle ‘honour killing’.

‘In pursuance of the cabinet decision, a Group of Ministers has been constituted to consider a draft bill on the subject,’ Chidambaram said in the Lok Sabha in response to a calling attention notice given by Communist Party of India’s Gurudas Dasgupta and other MPs.