Court acquits last 8 accused in '87 'sati' glorification case

Almost 158 years after the British Empire outlawed the practice of Sati in India, the last recorded instance emerged in 1987 in a small Rajasthan village. And 37 years after being accused of glorifying the death of Roop Kanwar, India’s last documented Sati case, a special court in Jaipur acquitted eight individuals on Wednesday (October 9), citing the benefit of the doubt, as reported by The Indian Express.

The eight, along with others, were alleged to have organised an event around the first anniversary of Roop Kanwar’s act of Sati, celebrating her death.

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Special Judge Akshi Kansal of the Sati Niwaran court acquitted Mahendra Singh, Shrawan Singh, Nihal Singh, Jitendra Singh, Uday Singh, Dasrath Singh, Laxman Singh, and Bhanwar Singh, all of whom were previously out on bail.