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agencies / Pampa
Tension prevails at Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple complex today morning as a group of 11 women, below the age of 50 years, tried to move towards the hilltop shrine, even as devotees protested against the move.
With protest intensifying, the women, members of the Chennai-based “Manithi” outfit, were shifted to police control room in Pampa. Police also arrested a number of protestors as prohibitory order still prevails here.
Earlier the group of women staged a sit-in dharna on the road in front of the Ganapathy temple here when they were denied permission to visit the temple.