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    The document discusses the Practice of Sati Prevention Act of 1988 in India. It defines Sati as the historical practice where a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her deceased husband's funeral pyre, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes by force. The Act bans the practice of Sati and outlines punishments for attempting or abetting Sati, including death or life imprisonment. It also bans glorifying Sati with imprisonment of at least one year. The document provides background on the origins and history of Sati in India and efforts over the centuries to ban the practice.

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    The document discusses the Practice of Sati Prevention Act of 1988 in India. It defines Sati as the historical practice where a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her deceased husband's funeral pyre, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes by force. The Act bans the practice of Sati and outlines punishments for attempting or abetting Sati, including death or life imprisonment. It also bans glorifying Sati with imprisonment of at least one year. The document provides background on the origins and history of Sati in India and efforts over the centuries to ban the practice.

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    The document discusses the Practice of Sati Prevention Act of 1988 in India. It defines Sati as the historical practice where a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her deceased husband's funeral pyre, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes by force. The Act bans the practice of Sati and outlines punishments for attempting or abetting Sati, including death or life imprisonment. It also bans glorifying Sati with imprisonment of at least one year. The document provides background on the origins and history of Sati in India and efforts over the centuries to ban the practice.

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    The Practice of SATI

    Prevention Act, 1988


    National Commission for
    Women
    Nation wide Program for
    Generating Awareness about
    Legal Rights of Women
    Resource Person
    Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
    M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI
    TMF, (PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
    Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
    93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36
    puttuvvit@gmail.com
    The Practice of SATI Prevention
    Act, 1988
    Sati is a practice among Hindu
    communities where a recently
    widowed woman, either voluntarily
    or by force, immolates herself on
    her deceased husband's pyre.
    The woman who immolates herself
    is, hence, called a Sati which is also
    interpreted as a ' holy woman' or
    a 'good and devoted wife.
    HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF
    SATI OR THE MYTHOLOGY OF SATI
    The term sati is derived from the name of
    goddess sati , wife of Shiva .
    Sati immolated herself because her father
    insulted her husband .
    In some castes , sati used to be buried alive
    with her deceased husband especially in
    NATHS the ascetic and WEAVER community.
    Acc.. to the Greeks recorded the earliest
    incident of sati and in the 4th century B.C.
    Alexander's soldiers found it in north west
    India.
    #Rani Padmani (johar)
    Law and Act.
    In the 16th century, Humayun was the
    first to try a royal agreement against the
    practice. Akbar was next to issue official
    orders prohibiting Sati .
    The Portuguese banned the practice in
    Goa by 1515.
    The Dutch and the French banned it in
    Hugli-Chunchura (then Chinsurah) and
    Pondicherry. Bengal sati regulation act
    1829.
    The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856.
    Commission of sati prevention act 1987
    PUNISHMENT S
    Attempt: whoever attempt to commit sati
    shall be punishable with imprisonment or
    fine and both
    Abetment: whoever abet the
    commission of such sati , directly or
    indirectly, shall be punishable with death
    or imprisonment of life and fine also.
    Glorification: Any act the glorification of
    sati shall be punishable with imprisonment
    for a term which shall not be less than one
    year but which may extent seven years
    with the fine five thousand or may extent
    to thirty thousand.
    National Commission for
    Women
    Nation wide Program for
    Generating Awareness about
    Legal Rights of Women
    Resource Person
    Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
    M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM, APSET. ICFAI
    TMF, (PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
    Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
    93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36

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