Asked to return by police, says Trupti Desai

November 16, 2018 18:20

Activist Trupti Desai, who is in Kochi enroute to Sabarimala, said that she has been asked by police to return to Pune from the Kochi airport.

Desai has been confined to the Kochi airport since her arrival early this morning following protest by devotees and others opposing the entry of menstrual age women into the Lord Ayyappa temple.

Tension prevailed at the airport at Nedumbassery, about 50 km from Kochi, as the devotees and others, including BJP workes, remained firm that Desai and six other young women who accompanied her would not be allowed proceed to the Sabarimala temple which opens this evening.

Pune-based Desai, who landed at aaround 4.40 am, said there was no question of her going back without having darshan at the temple, which opens for the third time after the Supreme Court order on September 28 allowing all women to enter the famous shrine.

Police, who were present in large numbers, later in the day registered a case against around 200 devotees who can be identified for preventing the free movement of the activists, but did not make any attempt to remove them so far.

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