Sabarimala: Another woman from Alappuzha district of Keala, said to be in the below 50 years age group, who was on the way to Sabarimala armed with the Supreme Court order was stopped from proceeding at the Pathanamthitta bus terminal by passengers.


The passengers including women chanting Ayyappa mantra urged the woman, Liby, not to violate the centuries-old custom of the shrine where women in the menstruating age group are not allowed.


Liby said she would climb the hills and no one had the right to violate the freedom granted by the Supreme Court. The woman was later escorted out to the bus station by the police.


Madhavi, the woman from Andhra Pradesh, also in the below 50 years' age
group, who tried to climb the Sabarimala Hills to reach the Lord Ayyappa temple, returned to Pamba following protests by male devotees. She had trekked 200 metres towards the shrine but was forced to turn back after devotees against the SC order, intimidated them chanting the Ayyappa mantra as they walked by her side. 


Image: In Pamba, the final point before the Sabarimala shrine, police detain people protesting against the entry of women in the age group of 10-50.