Though motivation and glorification of sati is a crime under the Commision for Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, dozens of small and big temples flourish unchecked in Bundelkhand, UP, and across Rajasthan, ...

Madhya Pradesh court has sentenced the sons and brothers of a 62-year old woman with life imprisonment, after they forced her to burn with her dead husband on his funeral pyre on August 2002. The ...

BANIYANI, India — It's an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take ...

Police in India say a 65-year-old woman has burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre committing the outlawed practice of "sati". The incident took place on Tuesday in the central state of Madhya ...

Fifteen people have been arrested in central India after a woman burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre. The suspects in Madhya Pradesh state face charges of murder and conspiracy, the ...

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On March 3, 2004, women's groups including the Rajasthan University Women's Association, Sathin Karmachari Sangh and the National Federation of Indian Women, under the banner of Mahila Atyachar ...

If any individuals or groups are tempted to glorify Saturday’s sati by Lalmati, 70, in Chechar village, Chattisgarh, as seems likely from the ground report, let them recall the law of this land, ...

A Rajasthan Tourism guide recently released by state tourism minister Usha Punia seeks to advertise the state to tourists as "best known for sati matas". <div class ...

Shakti Peetha is the holy place where Mata Sati’s body part fell and the pilgrimage is dedicated to Maa Sati, each year thousands of devotees visit the place and ask for blessings. According to the ...