11 cleared of 'glorifying' ritual Hindu suicide

Eleven people were acquitted Saturday on charges of "glorifying" the banned practice of sati, where Hindu widows burn themselves to death on their husbands' funeral pyres, following a notorious incident in 1987.
A special court in the western desert state of Rajasthan ruled that since it had not been proved that the death of Roop Kanwar, 17, in a village called Deorala, was an incident of sati, the accused could not have glorified it.