It was a case that made headlines globally and led to widespread condemnation.
A teenaged widow was burned on her husband’s funeral pyre under the Hindu practice of sati 37 years ago.
Now Roop Kanwar’s story has returned to headlines in India after a court acquitted eight men accused of glorifying her death, in the last of the remaining cases in the grisly saga.
Sati was first banned in 1829 by the British colonial rulers, but the practice had continued even after India’s independence in 1947. Kanwar is recognised as India’s last sati.
