On Your Own, Cops Told Woman After Sabarimala Protests Forced 2 To Return | Read
As two women tried and failed to take the last few steps to the famed Sabarimala shrine in Kerala on Friday, blocked by fierce protests, a third woman started her climb. Only to be told by the police that she would have to make her way to the hilltop temple alone, unlike her predecessors, who went with heavy police escort and in riot gear. Mary Sweety, 46, only made it to Pamba, the entry point five km from the shrine, as devotees refused to comply with a Supreme Court order allowing women of menstrual age, or between 10 and 50 years, in the temple of Lord Ayyappa.
