Bindu Ammini, one of the first two women to enter Sabarimala temple after the Supreme Court’s 2018 verdict, was on Tuesday attacked with chilli and pepper powder outside the police commissioner’s office in Ernakulam, Kerala.
Bindu’s friend Kanakadurga, who had entered the shrine with her on January 2 this year, was recently at the centre of a massive misinformation campaign on social media in Kerala.
Bindu was in Ernakulam as part of the six-member team led by Trupti Desai who planned to visit the shrine, Mathrubhumi reported.
Activist Trupti Desai, who arrived in the state early Tuesday, approached the police seeking security for her group’s visit to the temple.
Desai said they preferred November 26 to visit the shrine as it was Constitution Day.
She said she had come with the 2018 order of the Supreme Court permitting entry of women of all age groups into the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala.
“I will leave Kerala only after offering prayers at the shrine,” the activist said, PTI quoted.
(This is a developing story.)