Six days after a 45-year-old woman allegedly committed sati in Satpura village in Mahoba district, Kusum visited the place today to ``collect facts'' required for her new assignment as watchdog of crime against women in the state.

She talked to relatives of the woman, visited the site of the ``sati'' and is likely to remain there for another day. But, unlike her previous visits during the regime of Kalyan Singh, Kusum was not accorded a welcome by police and administrative officials there.

Her earlier tours to any district used to put the bureaucracy on its toes as the message to officials was clear ``any displeasure for madam is bound to earn the ire of the chief minister''. The officials used to literally line up to meet her on her previous tours.