Ajith Kumar is currently holding the charge of Sabarimala Coordinator. DGP Sheikh Darvez Sahib apprised the meeting about the preparedness of the Police Department to ensure the pilgrimage takes place in a peaceful manner.
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to guarantee that no person visits Sabarimala Temple without virtual queue booking or spot booking.
It has, meanwhile, been reported that the Kerala High Court is considering to appoint a legal team to study the complaints of pilgrims about crowding at Sabarimala.
Taking a serious note of how the guard of the Devaswom Board regulated devotees who arrived for the Makaravilakku ritual on 14 January, a division bench of Justices Anil K Narendran and P G Ajithkumar said it was a "flagrant violation of the directions issued by this court.
The Ayyappa devotees were headed home after visiting Sabarimala when their car met with an accident late Friday.
Kudos are therefore due to the executive committee and general council of the Kerala Laltihkala Akademi for rejecting a bid by the state government to review its decision to award a controversial cartoon focused on the activities of the suspended Bishop Franco Mullakal who is out on bail for alleged sexual abuse of a nun.
It appears that Lord Ayyappa, the deity of the Sabarimala shrine has blessed not the ones who vociferously campaigned for him.
The LDF was forced to be content with one seat, Alappuzha. The LDF lost its traditional bastions such as, Palakkad, Alathur,Kannur, Kasargod, Vadakara and Attingal.
The Thrissur DC has in her report to Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena said she found that Suresh Gopi prima facie violated the model of conduct by using religious motifs to garner votes
Sabarimala will now join the list of temples open to women, but there are other Hindu temples that keep their gates shut to them. Moreover, there are possibly even more shrines of Muslim saints (tombs called dargahs) that traditionally disallow women from entering the inner sanctum. In 2016, the Supreme Court similarly forced the famous Haji Ali Dargah to open its doors to women, but the same did not apply to other Islamic shrines.
