The Madhya Pradesh High Court Friday directed the state administration to ensure that an effigy of Sonam Raghuwanshi — who’s accused of murdering her husband during their honeymoon in Meghalaya — is not burnt on Dussehra in place of Ravana.

The court was hearing a plea by Sonam’s mother seeking directions to stop a local Indore organisation from burning an effigy of her daughter or from undertaking any similar actions of public humiliation. She further sought directions to ensure no “unlawful or unconstitutional” actions were carried out against the petitioner and her family.

Remarking that such an act is “wholly impermissible” Justice Pranay Verma, said: “From the pamphlet and the other documents which have been brought by the petitioner on record it is evident that respondent No.6 prop

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