Date:05/09/2002 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2002/09/05/stories/2002090505860101.htm

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No fair at sati temple: HC

Jaipur Sept. 4. The Rajasthan High Court today disallowed any fair at the Rani Sati temple in Jhunjhunu during the annual function this week but allowed prayer at the shrine. Justice K.S. Rathore also ordered that no glorification of `sati' shall be done during the function.

The Temple Trust had approached the High Court after the State Government had refused to keep the over-a-century-old temple outside the purview of the Anti-Sati Act and allow the holding of the annual fair, stopped after the Deorala `sati' incident in 1987.

— PTI