According to sources a day after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan chaired a high level meeting with senior police officials in Thiruvananthapuram. Meanwhile authorities on Thursday launched a crackdown on protesters who prevented women in the 10 to 50 age group from entering the Sabarimala temple. Recently police have arrested over 1,400 people across the state, registering 258 cases against 2,000 people for defying an order of the Supreme Court that had allowed women of all ages to visit the temple.
Accordingly the police arrested people from Pathanamthitta the district where the temple is located, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Ernakulam and elsewhere. Furthermore the arrests came after Vijayan chaired a high level meeting yesterday and the arrests had become a certainty after the police first released pictures of over 200 people who they thought were responsible for attacking the police, media and pilgrims.
As per report Kerala BJP President P.S. Sreedharan Pillai said that he would soon approach the High Court against the police action against the devotees. Pillai said "What's happening now is false cases are being registered against the devotees who stood to protect the traditions of the temple and hence this is done purposely by the CPI-M to finish off this famed temple”.
