{"id":305251,"date":"2018-11-06T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305251"},"modified":"2018-11-06T06:59:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T06:59:40","slug":"protests-continue-on-2nd-day-of-opening-of-sabarimala-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/protests-continue-on-2nd-day-of-opening-of-sabarimala-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests continue on 2nd day of opening of Sabarimala shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303361 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-667x420.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the second day of the re-opening of the Sabarimala holy shrine, protests continue against the entry of women of menstruating age into the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The protestors clashed with police on November 6 over reports of woman devotee trying to enter the shrine, thought to be in her menstruating age, was heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The police maintain that the woman who attempted to enter the temple premises was well over 52 years. The lady and her son and the man accompanying them were given police protection and taken to the Sannidhanam police station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amid the protests, media persons were attacked and a cameraperson was injured at the base camp in Pamba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lalitha, a 52-year-old devotee, along with her son was escorted by cops on her visit. &#8220;I am not afraid, I want darshan of Lord Ayyappa,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Despite the top court&#8217;s order allowing women of all age groups into the temple, no woman in the age group of 10 to 50 years have yet been able to visit the temple since the top court&#8217;s order on September 28.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second day of the re-opening of the Sabarimala holy shrine, protests continue against the entry of women of menstruating age into the temple. \u00a0The protestors clashed with police on November 6 over reports of woman devotee trying to enter the shrine, thought to be in her menstruating age, was heard. \u00a0The police maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,9558,9556,9557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305254,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305251\/revisions\/305254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}