A High Court ruling disagreed with his claim, and the-then Justice Secretary Jack Straw stated that the British public would "find it abhorrent that human remains were being burned in this way."
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In Mumbai, for Marathi people generally, the dead body is wrapped in a shroud and placed on a structure made of bamboo sticks and grass carpet, an earth pot (matka) is tied with sutli and rice is cooked in small earth pots and it is placed in a big pot where aggarbattis are burning.