On the second day of the re-opening of the Sabarimala temple, protests continue against the entry of women of menstruating age into the temple. Fresh protests erupted on Tuesday morning when a woman, thought to be in her menstruating age, was heard of being around the temple premises.
The police later informed that the woman who attempted to enter temple premises was a 52-years-old. The lady and her son and the man accompanying them were given police protection and taken to the Sannidhanam police station.
Amid the protests, journalists were attacked and a cameraperson was injured at the base camp in Pamba.
Over 1,000 security personnel, including a 20-member commando team and 100 women, were deployed in the area on Monday to maintain law and order.
Here are the Highlights from the second-day of protests at Sabarimala:
A cameraman of a Malayalam television news channel was attacked, allegedly by angry devotees, at the Lord Ayyappa temple complex today when he was filming a protest organised to prevent the entry of a woman, whom they suspected to be of menstrual age.
Local media channels said journalists were heckled in the protests, however, police denied that any such incident occurred.
Yesterday, a 25-year-old woman, heading for the shrine with her husband and two children, was stopped at Pamba, the base camp from where devotees start the trek to the hill top shrine.
"We have information a woman on way to the temple but nobody has approached us so far for security," a police official at Pamba told news agency PTI on Monday.
