- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Radhakrishna N S
Indian police have rounded up more than 2,000 people for stopping women from entering a flashpoint Hindu shrine in defiance of a supreme court order, officials said Friday (26). Hindu hardliners prevented women aged 10 to 50 from reaching the Sabarimala temple complex in Kerala state over the last week, the first time the temple has opened since the court ended a longstanding ban on women of menstruating age from worshipping there. Protesters, including women and children, massed at the bottom of a hill leading to the shrine, threatening and manhandling any women who attempted to reach the temple. Some…
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