Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

As with Bhanwari Devi, gross injustice was committed in the Roop Kanwar sati case, when yet another session court in Rajasthan, acquitted all 32 of the accused in October last year.

Prior to 1983, every form of violence committed within the family, either in the natal or the spousal home, was not considered an offence.