Roop Kanwar's death, the last reported case of Sati in India, led to the enactment of The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act ...

Out of the 45 individuals originally charged, 25 were acquitted in 2004 due to insufficient evidence, eight were acquitted on ...

A Rajasthan court acquitted the last eight of the accused in the 1987 Roop Kanwar 'sati glorification' case due to inadequate ...

Rajasthan court acquitted all the eight accused in the 36-year-old Roop Kanwar “sati" case due to lack of evidence., India ...

Since the beginning we have been saying that she committed the act on her own and there was no incitement or abetment. No one ...

A Rajasthan court has acquitted all the accused who stood trial in the 36-year-old Roop Kanwar “sati glorification” case involving the immolation of an 18-year-old, who burnt herself on the funeral py ...

Announcing its verdict in the 1987 Sati case, a Special Court of Jaipur Mahanagar II on Wednesday acquitted eight out of 45 ...

Expressing unhappiness over the court verdict on Wednesday in the 37 -year old case, PUCL national president Kavita ...

A special court in Jaipur on Wednesday acquitted eight accused in a 37-year-old case of glorification of Sati, and gave them ...

A special court in Jaipur on Wednesday acquitted eight accused in a 37-year-old case of glorification of Sati, and gave them “the benefit of doubt”, a lawyer said. The special court has acquitted 25 ...

PUCL for appeal against court acquittal of accused in Roop Kanwar sati case. Expressing unhappiness over the court verdict on Wednesday in the 37 -year old case, PUCL national pre ...

On 4 September 1987, in a Rajasthani village called Deorala, an eighteen–year–old woman named Roop Kanwar was burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre. Several thousand people, most of them men, ...