NEW DELHI: A woman activist, who first entered the
Sabarimala temple in January this year, on Tuesday alleged that she was attacked with chilli and pepper powder.
Bindu Ammini said "a man sprayed chilli and pepper at my face outside the Ernakulam city police commissioner's office in the morning."
Meanwhile, Women's rights activist
Trupti Desai reached
Kochi
on Tuesday to proceed to Sabarimala to offer prayers at the Lord Ayyappa shrine.
Desai said that she will visit Sabarimala temple as it is her Constitutional right.
"Today is the
Constitution Day and on this day, we will go to Sabarimala temple as it is our right," she told news agency ANI.
Accompanied by several other women, She said, "The rights under the Constitution allow us to pray to God and the right to equality, which is somewhere taken away from us despite the Supreme Court's order that there is no stay on women's entry in Sabarimala temple. So we will go inside the temple today."
"No one can stop us whether it is local police or government because if they stop us then it is a contempt of court. Even if they want to stop us then they should give that in writing to us that we cannot go inside the shrine," Desai said.
The activist said, "They ask to us bring the court's order if you want to enter the shrine, well I say to them to show us the order that says we are not allowed to enter the temple. This is an attempt to diminish the voice of women, we have come from different states and we will not go back till we enter the Sabarimala temple."
Earlier, Desai and a few other activists who landed at the Kochi International Airport early Tuesday have been taken to Kochi city police commissionerate.
She said she has come up 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.
The Pune-based Desai had made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the temple in November last year, weeks after the Supreme Court lifted the ban that prevented women and girls between the age of 10 and 50 from entering the famous shrine.
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