18 years old Roop Kanwar remains India’s last case of sati.

_{Roopkuvarba Kanwar was an Indian Rajput woman who was allegedly forced to immolate herself in an act of sati at Deorala village of Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. At the time, she had been married for eight months to Maal Singh Shekhawat, who had died a day earlier at age 24, and had no children. Roop Kanwar was burnt alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. Several thousand people attended. After her death, Roop Kanwar was hailed as a sati mata. It led first to state level laws to prevent such horrors, then the central government’s ‘Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act 1987’ came into effect.}