Hukka paani band, stopping someone’s hookah and water, means a complete social boycott. In July 2023 a khap, a village caste council in Haryana, imposed it on nine families for disobeying its order. ThePrint reported that “no villager would speak to them and no shopkeeper would sell them anything.”
Maharashtra has a law that “prohibits social boycott of a person or a group of people by panchayats.” Maharashtra was the first state to pass such a law.