A man has been sentenced to death in India after he burned his wife alive because her skin was too dark.
Kishandas , from the northwestern village of Navaniya, 'routinely' taunted his wife Lakshmi 'for being dark skinned' before her murder on June 24, 2017, a court in Udaipur heard.
The judgement has made headlines in a country where colourism and a caste system remain deeply entrenched in society.
District Judge Rahul Choudhary in the northern city of Udaipur said the decision to sentence Kishanda to death was because the murder fell in the category of the 'rarest of the rare' and it was 'a crime against humanity'.
Before her death, Lakshmi had given statements to the police and medical staff, in which she said her husband often called her 'kali' or dark skinned and would body shame her, the BBC reports.
