Can Britain accept funeral pyres?
23/Mar/2009
The High Court is being asked to rule on the legality of open air funeral pyres.If Davender Ghai gets his way, traditional Hindu cremations could become commonplace across England and Wales.
In 2006, Newcastle City Council blocked Davender Ghai's attempt to establish the UK's first approved site for open air funeral pyres.
It maintained the burning of human remains anywhere outside a crematorium was prohibited under the 1930 Cremation Act - a ruling the Ministry of Justice agrees was correct.
Now Mr Ghai, a Hindu campaigner and founder of the Anglo Asian
Friendship Society charity, is seeking a judicial review of the
decision.
Full story: BBC News
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