MALAPPURAM: A native of Nilambur , who had expressed solidarity to a group of women who expressed willingness for the Sabarimala pilgrimage, was attacked by a gang of people late Wednesday.Sangeeth (33), a make-up artist, had attended a press conference along with three women who had expressed willingness to visit the hill shrine at Ernakulam press club on November 19. Earlier, he had announced that he will go to Sabarimala along with a group of young women, through a facebook post.According to the police, Sangeeth was attacked by a four-member gang at Karakkode Devi temple at around 11pm.Sangeeth was visiting the temple along with two of his friends.Sangeeth claimed the gang directly approached him and asked why he is supporting young women who want to visit Shabarimala.“After the question, they suddenly unleashed attack on me, using stones and pieces of logs. I have identified three of the attackers, who are familiar to me," he said.Locals rushed Sangeeth to a government hospital in Nilambur. Police have registered a case in this regard and have recorded Sangeeth's statement.The incident occurred seven days after an attack on the house of one Aparna Shivakami, a cancer survivor and teacher in Thenhippalam in the district who had also attended the press conference supporting three women Reshma Nishanth, Shanila Satheesh and VS Dhanya, who shared bitter experience they had been subjected to ever since they had expressed wish to visit Sabarimala.Sangeeth, who is staying in Guruvayur along with his family for the last four years, had received threats from various corners after he attended the press conference and a group of people had staged Namajapam protest in front of his house in Guruvayur.“It was after my FB post supporting women's entry in Sabarimala, that a group of women contacted me for support. There are at least 30 young women who are ready to visit the shrine and ten of them have already registered online for the temple visit. As we don’t want to create law and order issues, the plan to visit temple has been postponed. But we will not drop the plan”, he said.Meanwhile, police are yet to identify the people who unleashed attack on the house of Aparna Shivakami, at Thenhipalam on November 23.

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