Summary:
On Wednesday, hordes of activists of Hindu fringe groups took to the streets and besieged the road leading to the temple. The police have thrown a security ring around the woman accompanied by her colleague, a foreigner. Even as the gates of the Sabarimala Temple opened on Wednesday evening amid violent protests over the Supreme Court decision to lift the centuries-old ban on the entry of women of menstrual age, a woman, said to be a Delhi-based journalist of a foreign media outlet, began trekking to the Sabarimala, according to news agency PTI. However, there is no confirmation regarding her age. The protesters heckled women journalists and activists, smashed their vehicles and young female devotees of Lord Ayyappa were turned back as police deployed there failed to maintain the law and order..