Deccan Chronicle

IN-LAWS THROW OUT DURGA FOR VISITING SABARI

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT

Kanakadurg­a, the activist who had a darsan at Sabarimala Sannidhana­m, has been left in a short-stay home for women in distress as her relatives refused to allow her to enter the house on Monday night.

She had undergone treatment at Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, after she was allegedly attacked by her mother-in-law when she returned after the controvers­ial trek of the Sabari Hills.

Her brother also had refused to allow her to enter the house.

Police had sent her to ‘One Stop Centre’ run by Social Justice Department for violence affected women at Perinthalm­anna.

Though Kanakadu-rga had approached Perinthalm­anna police on Sunday after she was discharged from Medical College Hospital and went to home with police escort, the relatives were adamant. She was hospitalis­ed on January 15 after she was allegedly beaten up by mother-in-law.

A police team is ensuring security for the woman round the clock. Headed by Perinthalm­anna sub-inspector P.S. Manjith Lal, a 10-member police force has been deployed at the locality.

Earlier, Supreme Court had ordered full time security to Kanakadurg­a and Bindu, the duo who trekked the Sabari Hills to have darsan of Lord Ayyappa.

It was in the first week of January that Kanakadurg­a and Bindu managed to enter the hill shrine.

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