Sabarimala Row: Three Women Fail to Enter Temple Amid Protests, Priest Threatens to Shut Shrine

Protests by hundreds of devotees at the entrance of Sabarimala temple forced the two women climbing to the hill-top shrine amid tight police security to call off their journey. The intensified protests by devotees and priests forced the women to turn back 500 metres from the temple.
Journalist Kavitha Jakkal of Hyderabad-based Mojo TV and Fathima, devotee from Kochi, began their descend towards Pamba foothills of the temple. The two women were by accompanied a 100 policemen led by Inspector General of Police S Sreejith.
In a never-before move, around 30 employees attached to the temple tantri and the chief priest went on protest as they stopped their rituals and sat down in front of the hallowed 18 steps leading to the sanctum santorum and sang Ayyappa hymns after they heard that the two women were about to reach the shrine.

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