A case was registered against 200 people after a woman above menstrual age was allegedly manhandled at the Sabrimala temple shrine on Tuesday, even as the Sangh Parivar members staged a protest when a few young women reportedly approached the steps near the sanctum sanctorum of the hill shrine, suspecting them to be of “traditionally barred” age group of 10-50 years.
Lalitha Ravi, 52, from Thrissur, had come to attend her grandchild’s ‘choroonu’ (rice feeding ceremony) at the Ganapathi temple in Pamba on Tuesday, when rumours over her age triggered protests at the Sannidhabam. Subsequently, a crowd surrounded the woman even as police tried to escort her, leading to a minor scuffle.