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Dalits punished for entering temple: Government steps in

A board outside a temple for the Goddess Kali orders Dalits to stop at this point. "Harijans can pray from here," it declares. The warning sign was put up in August last year after three schoolgirls entered the shrine to offer Prasad to the Goddess, an icon of empowerment and Shakti.The caretaker of the temple in Orissa's Puri district offers no ap...