Since open-air cremations anywhere outside a crematorium have been prohibited in Britain under the 1902 Cremation Act, many Indian-origin families in Britain take bodies of their deceased relatives to India for cremation according to Hindu rites. Ghai has been campaigning for the right to be cremated according to his Hindu beliefs for several years and sought legal redress.
Seventy-one-year-old Davender Ghai has seen little success in his three-year-old legal battle to conduct open-air cremations for Hindus in UK, but is far from giving up.
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