Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

In June, police arrested the mother and stepfather of the victim for taking her to private fertility centres to sell her oocytes.

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.