Female pilgrims from Kerala moves to the Supreme Court seeking life protection

Guwahati: The two women, who dared to enter into the Sabarimala temple despite the huge protest of the devotees, are now seeking protection of their lives. The women have filed a plea at the Supreme Court seeking protection of their lives and as per their plea, the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has agreed to hear their plea.

Senior advocate Indira Jaising, who has represented both the ladies Bindu and Kanakadurga of Kerala, is requesting for a safer and secret shelter for his clients so that they can escape any threat to their life. The Advocate has reported that one of the two women was scared by unidentified persons and the other woman’s home is being attacked as well.

The advocate, in her petition, has stated, every woman should be allowed to enter the temple without "any let or hindrance, without danger to life and liberty and to ensure security and safe passage, police security to women wishing to enter Sabarimala temple in future".

Further mentioning about the temple purification ceremony conducted by the temple authority followed by the entry of the two women, the petition states, the temple authorities should "not conduct the rite of purification or shut down the temple".

Such an act shown by the temple authorities has violated the fundamental rights of life, dignity, freedom of religion and freedom from discrimination of women. A temple of such a high repute should have not shown such disrespectful actions towards women.

Notably, it is these two women from Kerala who became the first female devotees in their menstruating age to have been able to break the barriers and enter into the temple, even though they did it without the knowledge of the devotees. It is this daring act of the two women pilgrims that has enraged the stereotyped feeling of the temple authorities and its devotees that eventually the two women are facing threat to their lives.

It was on September 28, when the Supreme Court had lifted the ban on the female pilgrims while entering into the Sabarimala temple. It had allowed any female pilgrim, even the ones of menstrual age to enter into the forest temple.

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