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#SabarimalaTemple: Security beefed up amid reports of entry of women
22 Oct 2018
Security has been tightened at Sabarimala and other pilgrim centers connected to it amid reports that women in the menstrual age group are planning to visit the hill shrine on Monday, the last day of the "darshan".
Devotees opposing the entry of girls and women in the age group of 10 to 50 years are camping at the Sabarimala Sannidhanam temple complex.
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Devotees force women to give up plans to visit temple
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Despite clamping Section 144, CrPC at Sabarimala Sannidhanam, Pamba, Nilackal, and Elavumkal, hundreds of Ayyappa devotees have prevented around 12 women who attempted to visit the shrine, forcing them to give up their plan.
According to the latest reports, a woman armed with the Supreme Court order on the Sabarimala Temple has approached the police, seeking help to offer prayers at the temple.
Six women blocked by devotees from entering the temple
SC's order
Six women were prevented from entering the Sabarimala temple on Sunday by a large number of devotees.
Amid high drama, the devotees, up in arms against the implementation of the Supreme Court order lifting the ban on the entry of women in the 10-50 years' age group, chanting Ayyappa mantras, blocked the six, all Telugu-speaking women, from reaching the famed shrine.
Not a single woman aged between 10-50 years entered temple
Women devotees
By all available indications, not a single woman in the age group of 10-50 years has so far reached the temple which would close Monday at the end of the monthly puja.
Kerala has been witnessing massive protests by Ayyappa devotees opposing the entry of girls, women of menstrual age into the Sabarimala temple since the government decided to implement the apex court order.
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