An ashram run by a Kerala monk, who supported the Supreme Court verdict allowing the entry of women of menstruating age at the Sabarimala temple, was attacked by unidentified people in the wee hours of Saturday.

Two cars and a scooter parked outside Swami Sandeepananda Giri's ashram in Kundamankadavu, on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, were set on fire around 2 am. The assailants also kept wreaths in front of the hermitage.
Giri, the director of the School of Bhagavad Gita, blamed the attack on BJP state president PS Sreedharan Pillai, the temple tantric (priests), activist Rahul Easwar and the Pandalam Royal family, which is also associated with the shrine. This is not the way they should react when the absence of logic in their statements is questioned, he said.

Following the incident, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac visited the ashram. Vijayan condemned the act and said stringent action would be taken against the accused, whoever they may be