Activist Trupti Desai detained for entering temple in Maharashtra

March 25, 2016 12:50

Activist Trupti Desai was detained by police after she entered and offered prayers at the Trimbakeshwar temple today. Local women in Nashik gathered to protest against Desai's arrest.

"We offered prayers to Lord Shiva at Trimbakeshwar temple and prayed that women be allowed to enter the temple's sanctum," Trupti Desai said.

Desai was arrested along with other women from Bhumata Brigade earlier this month, when they tried to head towards the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik where women entry is restricted. The women's group had vowed to break the age-old custom of the temple, which does not allow women to enter the inner sanctum of the temple.

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