Thiruvananthapuram | The Kerala police on Monday installed mobile jammers outside the Sabarimala Temple to avoid the Tantri and Sabrimala temple officials from speaking to media and prevent live streaming of visuals.
The administration also deployed around 2300 police personnel to avoid any riot-like situation in front of the Temple. The shrine of Sabrimala will going to hold a one day pilgrimage starting on Monday at 5 pm which will end on Tuesday at 10 pm. For security purpose, the police also stopped private buses carrying pilgrims midway. The police also deployed a dozen of female police officers above the age of 50 in the Temple town.
Citing the age-old temple tradition, temple priest and officials said they would close the shrine if any female devotee from the age group 10 to 50 tried to enter the sanctum sanctorum. Earlier section 144 was imposed in parts of Kerala after violence erupted near the Sabarimala Temple as protestors tried to stop women from entering the temple premise. The local administration has imposed Section 144 which prohibits assembly of more than 4 people in an area has been imposed in Pampa, Nilakkal, Sannidhanam and Elavungal areas near the Sabarimala Temple.
Various protestors on 17th October blocked female journalists and women devotees from entering the temple premises. The protesting crowds took control of the Nilakkal area and pelted stones at Police vehicles, including the KSRTC buses on way to Pamba. The women were forced to get out of there vehicles who were on their way to the shrines. To bring the situation under control the police lathi-charged and pelted stones at the protestors opposing women’s entry from age 10 to 50 in the Sabarimala Temple at the Nilakkal base camp in Kerala.
The Supreme Court earlie on 28 September in a historic judgement allowed women from the age of 10 to 50 to enter in the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala. The five-judge constitutional bench headed by former Chief justice Deepak Misra in a 4:1 verdict allowed the entry of women of all age in the Sabarimala Temple.
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