10-13-2008, 08:09 PM
<span style='color:red'>Woman performs sati in Chhattisgarh </span>
Sunday, 12 October , 2008, 15:00
Raipur: A 71-year-old woman in a Chhattisgarh village jumped on her husband's funeral pyre and committed suicide, creating a sensation as hundreds thronged to view the place of the alleged 'sati', a banned Hindu custom, police said on Sunday. The incident took place late on Saturday evening in Chechar village, in the interiors of Raipur district, some 125 km from Raipur.
Police were informed about the alleged 'sati' late on Saturday night and filed a First Information Report on Sunday after visiting the spot. "Lalmati Verma, 71, who belonged to Chechar village, jumped on her husband's funeral pyre after all the villagers had left the site," police said.
Lalmati had come for the funeral of her husband Shivnandan Verma, 80, dressed in a new sari. The villagers had decided to leave when the body of her husband was almost burnt, but his wife jumped on the pyre. She was reduced to ashes soon," Police added.
He refused to say whether she was provoked by anyone in her family or villagers to commit the act. Her husband had died of natural causes. The woman belonged to the Kurmi caste, categorized under the Other Backward Classes (OBC). Police said: "The woman had three sons but was living separately with her husband in a corner of an old house. Her sons had no idea of their mother's plan, according to preliminary police investigations."
The incident has created a sensation in the farmer-dominated village, which has a population of about 1,000. A majority of the people thronged the site, some 20 km from the village, where Lalmati chose to end her life.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14775044
TOI says:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->RAIPUR: In a shocking throwback to medieval times, an elderly woman committed 'sati' by jumping into her 80-year-old husband's funeral pyre at Checher in Kasdol block of Chhattisgarh's Raipur district late on Saturday evening.
Police cordoned off the area after a large number of people gathered on the spot to offer prayers to 'sati mata'. People from nearby villages kept arriving at the crematorium throughout the day on Sunday.
Lalmati Verma, 75, killed herself after mourners had left the cremation site. Raipur (rural) ASP Prashant Thakur confirmed the incident. "Disturbed by her husband Shivnandan Verma's death, Lalmati had expressed desire to commit 'sati', but her family didn't take it seriously," he said.
The family said after lighting the pyre, the mourners went for a bath as per a local custom and when they returned Lalmati was missing. "As the family didn't find Lalmati home when they returned, they rushed to the cremation ground where they found her burning in the pyre," Thakur said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/R...how/3587874.cms
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Sunday, 12 October , 2008, 15:00
Raipur: A 71-year-old woman in a Chhattisgarh village jumped on her husband's funeral pyre and committed suicide, creating a sensation as hundreds thronged to view the place of the alleged 'sati', a banned Hindu custom, police said on Sunday. The incident took place late on Saturday evening in Chechar village, in the interiors of Raipur district, some 125 km from Raipur.
Police were informed about the alleged 'sati' late on Saturday night and filed a First Information Report on Sunday after visiting the spot. "Lalmati Verma, 71, who belonged to Chechar village, jumped on her husband's funeral pyre after all the villagers had left the site," police said.
Lalmati had come for the funeral of her husband Shivnandan Verma, 80, dressed in a new sari. The villagers had decided to leave when the body of her husband was almost burnt, but his wife jumped on the pyre. She was reduced to ashes soon," Police added.
He refused to say whether she was provoked by anyone in her family or villagers to commit the act. Her husband had died of natural causes. The woman belonged to the Kurmi caste, categorized under the Other Backward Classes (OBC). Police said: "The woman had three sons but was living separately with her husband in a corner of an old house. Her sons had no idea of their mother's plan, according to preliminary police investigations."
The incident has created a sensation in the farmer-dominated village, which has a population of about 1,000. A majority of the people thronged the site, some 20 km from the village, where Lalmati chose to end her life.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14775044
TOI says:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->RAIPUR: In a shocking throwback to medieval times, an elderly woman committed 'sati' by jumping into her 80-year-old husband's funeral pyre at Checher in Kasdol block of Chhattisgarh's Raipur district late on Saturday evening.
Police cordoned off the area after a large number of people gathered on the spot to offer prayers to 'sati mata'. People from nearby villages kept arriving at the crematorium throughout the day on Sunday.
Lalmati Verma, 75, killed herself after mourners had left the cremation site. Raipur (rural) ASP Prashant Thakur confirmed the incident. "Disturbed by her husband Shivnandan Verma's death, Lalmati had expressed desire to commit 'sati', but her family didn't take it seriously," he said.
The family said after lighting the pyre, the mourners went for a bath as per a local custom and when they returned Lalmati was missing. "As the family didn't find Lalmati home when they returned, they rushed to the cremation ground where they found her burning in the pyre," Thakur said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/R...how/3587874.cms
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