51 women in 10-50 age group entered Sabarimala temple till now: Kerala to SC

Fifty-one female devotees in the age group of 10-50 years have entered the Sabarimala temple since the Supreme Court removed the bar on their entry in September last year, the Kerala government Friday told the apex court, which ordered it to provide two of them round-the-clock foolproof security.

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L N Rao and Dinesh Maheshwari said it was only going into the aspect of security of the two women -- Bindu and Kanakadurga, and would not like to entertain any other prayer made in the petition.

"We deem it appropriate to close this writ petition at this stage by directing the State of Kerala to provide adequate/full security to the petitioner Nos. 1 (Bindu) and 2 (Kanakadurga) herein which would be provided to the petitioners round the clock," the bench said.

It was hearing a petition of 42-year-old Bindu, a college lecturer and CPI(ML) activist from Kozhikode district's Koyilandy, and Kanakadurga, 44, a civil supplies department employee ...