Pilgrims throng Sabarimala temple, offer prayers

Express photo) The court stated that the Devaswom boards must give appropriate directions to the temples under their jurisdiction so that the priests do not include, plastic utensils and items in the 'irumudiketti'. Express photo) The mandala pooja is scheduled on December 27 after which the sanctum sanctorum closes for three days. It reopens again on December 30. The 'makaravilakku' festival falls on January 15. Express photo) Conveying its displeasure to the Kerala government for not framing a law exclusively for the management of the Sabarimala hill shrine despite an undertaking earlier, the Supreme Court Wednesday directed the state to come up with such a legislation by the third week of January. (Express photo) A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court had on November 14, in a 3:2 verdict, decided to refer to a larger bench the re-examination of religious issues including those arising out of its 2018 verdict lifting a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age visiting the shrine. (Express photo) M S Parameswaran Namboodiri on Saturday took charge as priest of the Malikappuram temple, located near the Ayyappa temple. (Express photo) A Hindu Helpline activist was arrested Tuesday for spraying chilli powder on Bindu Ammini, one of the two women who had first managed to offer prayers at the Sabarimala temple last year, outside the Kochi Police Commissioner's office. The activist was identified as Srinath Padmanabhan. (TDB) Following the SC's ruling this year, the Kerala government has adopted a cautious approach and made it clear Sabarimala was not a place for activism. (TDB) It also added that no women devotees will be granted police protection and that they will not be allowed near the shrine without the Supreme Court order. (TDB) Many women, including a 12-year-old girl, have been turned away from the shrine since the temple opened last month. (TDB) The Sabarimala temple opened for the annual 'mandala-makaravilakku' festival this year on the evening of November 16. (TDB) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.magcloud.com/user/michealseans

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