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The High Court of Kerala observed that police excess cannot be permitted in Sabarimala in the guise of implementing the SC judgment on women entry. The special bench for consideration of Devaswom Matters orally remarked that police arrangements causing hardships to genuine devotees. High Court asked the State Attorney under what authority police can restrict devotees’ right to worship. Police cannot be present in the Nadappandal, which is a resting place for devotees; the place of police is in the barracks, observed High Court. In 2017 a single police officer could manage a huge crowd of devotees at Sannidanam and this…

Rani Nair, a Kerala based women who live in Toronto, Ontario wrote an open letter to Trupti Desai. Her letter is the representation of all Ayyappa devotees. Here is her FB letter. I don’t understand why you have to fight for equality for us. Hindu south Indian women. We are a society which follows matriarchal system in India unlike the patriarchal system in your community. I’ve lived in the North of India a few years, and I was downhearted by how you treat your daughters and daughters-in-law. I’m so proud to be born in Kerala as a Hindu woman, where my…

This year Sabarimala pilgrimage season is a complete failure still now. A peaceful visit to the shrine is a dream for devotees. The troubles were starts on a bus trip to Pumpa. The Nilakkal bus depot is another police hub and from 8.30 pm police stop buses to Pumpa. Usually, devotees used to reach Pumpa between 10.00 – 12.00 pm and after the holy bath at 1.00 am they were moved to Sannidanam. They can be in the first queue while the shrine opens at 5 am and from their pilgrim can follow towards the “Nyabhishekam” (ghee offering). The Kerala…

It is the first ever incident in the history of Sabarimala temple, devotees have been arrested without any provocation, in the odd hours at Sannidhanam. Police treated devotees as criminals as the devotees were chanting prayers at Sannidhanam. Police dragged the devotees and trampled them with boots. Protests have been spreading statewide against the brutal act of police. Tension gripped the hilltop Sabarimala shrine late on Sunday night as over 100 Ayyappa devotees suddenly gathered to chant hymns outside the temple. After nearly an hour-long stand-off, they were taken into custody and being brought downhill to the base camp. The…

The left government again showed the dark side of the police-raj. K. Surendran the BJP leader had arrested the way to Sabarimala with “irumudikettu” (holy offering). The police on Saturday took BJP leader K. Surendran into preventive custody after he attempted to enter Sabarimala through the check-post at Nilackal, the base camp 26 km downhill from the forest shrine. A police team led by Superintendent of Police Yatish Chanda hustled him away in a patrol van to the district police headquarters at Pathanamthitta at 7.20 p.m. Chittar police registered an FIR against K Surendran slapping charges under CrPC 151 and…

The Hindu Aikya Vedi and Sabarimala Karma Samithi have called a dawn-to-dusk flash hartal across Kerala on Saturday to protest the arrest of Vedi president K.P. Sasikala, who was on the way to Sabarimala in Pathanamthitta on Friday night. Public transport, such as autorickshaws and personal vehicles, remained off the street, setting the commuters. The KSRTC didn’t operate services except for its Sabarimala specials as the numbers of pilgrims were much less than normal. A tense situation prevailed in the area as protesters converged on streets as early as 7.30 a.m. They also organized a march to the office of…

The mysterious disappearance of a 17-year-old girl has left her loved ones and the authorities stressed. Struggling to trace her over a week after her disappearance and with the family not having heard anything out of her, the Chengamanad authorities on Wednesday issued a lookout notice for the woman hailing from Puthenvelikkara Village. The youngster, a Plus Two student, has been lost since November 8 when she had left home for school in the afternoon. The family filed a case with the police when she did not turn up late today. We’ve been trying to track her without any success.…

Residents associations and NGOs are on the warpath citing how motorists have to pay a hefty toll although the stretch is ill-lit, dotted by unscientifically located U-turns, bus stops unkempt medians and shoddily maintained service streets. The two NHAI officials and those entrusted with the maintenance of this stretch confided that the agency’s headquarters in New Delhi has been turning a blind eye towards suggestions sent to declog existing drains, construct drains alongside service streets and also to pay for them. “Inadequate drains and dumping of garbage into open drains have been a perennial problem, ever since the NH Bypass…

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday declared that Carnatic singer T.M Krishna would play in the Capital on November 17 at 6.  30 pm. The place for the concert is the Garden of Five Senses at Saket, which will be conducted by Delhi Tourism, Mr. Sisodia said. Earlier, Mr. Krishna has been scheduled to play in Nehru Park as a part of a concert organized together by Airports Authority of India and Spicmacay.  The AAI pulled out of the event allegedly after getting trolled for encouraging Mr. Krishna to sing. “AAI developed cold feet and feared that there will…

Jennifer Sullivan Snow was innocent and spontaneous — the type of person who”didn’t possess it in her” to pass by someone needing assistance, according to her younger brother. “She had been incredibly caring,” explained Chad Sullivan. On her way there, the 33-year-old stopped to assist at the scene of a collision on the Trans-Canada Highway. That act of kindness was the final of her life.  She was generous”not only with her friends and family, but random strangers,” Sullivan said. “Anyone she met became an immediate friend. “She had just such a gorgeous outlook on life.” Born in Fredericton, also raised…