Trupti Desai to return to Pune without taking darshan at Sabarimala

November 16, 2018 18:45

After over a 12-hour stand-off with devotees and others, including Bharatiya Janata Party workers, at the airport in Kochi vowing not to let her proceed to the Sabarimala shrine, activist Trupti Desai will return to her hometown in Maharashtra's Pune tonight.

The activist, who reached Kochi around 4.40 am along with six young women en route to the hill temple, has been unable to come out of the airport, with the protesters saying her group would not be allowed to proceed to the Sabarimala temple.

Desai said police officers held a meeting with her.

"Police have requested me to return to Pune," she told reporters.

Protesters alleged that Desai and her team came here to violate the centuries-old custom of the temple that prevented entry of women and girls in the age group of 10 and 50.

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