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.