Police foil 70-year-old woman`s `sati` bid in Kanpur`s Banda district
(WorldNews India)

The police picked up the woman from her residence at Shahbazpur Barkola village in Naraini tehsil of Banda just moments before she was about to begin walking with her husband´s body to the cremation site. lucknow Updated: Jan 16, 2019 07:57 IST HT Correspondent Hindustan Times, Kanpur Police stopped a 70-year-old woman in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh from proceeding to the cremation ground to commit ‘sati’, an outlawed religious practice in which Hindu windows used to immolate themselves on...