SANGHAR, July 2: The Panchayat meeting, scheduled on Tuesday at Tando Adam to settle the immolation case of a woman, Shanti, was again postponed as her relatives, including her brother, Gangoo, and father, Sankrio Bheel, did not come to attend it.

They said that they would attend an arbitration meeting to negotiate the case only after Shanti recovered and came home. Therefore the chiefs (Punchs of the meeting decided to wait for a few more days.

Meanwhile, the accused party is visiting the house of the complainant party to persuade them to pardon the accused men.

Earlier, Shanti alleged that the younger brother of her husband set her on fire in the kitchen of her house for resisting a rape attempt by him.

She received burn wounds on her chest.

The family of her husband as well as her in-laws tried to hush up the matter and to provide her treatment at home.

After about 38 days when the matter came up in the press, the police registered a case against her two brothers-in-laws.

One of them, the main accused, Agrio Bheel, was arrested and she was shifted to burns ward of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Hyderabad.