New Delhi: The London High Court has turned down a bid by petitioner Davender Ghai, 70, who was seeking to overturn a decision by Newcastle City Council preventing open funeral pyres.
The Council has said the traditional religious practice was impractical.
On Friday, Justice Cranston ruled that pyres were prohibited by law, and the prohibition was "justified".
Ghai, from Gosforth, Newcastle, is the founder of the Anglo-Asian Friendship Society (AAFS) and was refused a permit for an open-air cremation site in a remote part of Northumberland in February 2006.
His lawyers had argued a ban was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Ghai had once said, "it is my religious right and birth right. I want to have a funeral pyre. I want my son to light my fire and not a gas flame to light me up."
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