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Tiff outside Trimbakeshwar temple
NASHIK/MUMBAI: A group of women were manhandled by another
group when they were trying to reach towards the sanctum
sanctorum of the Trimbakeshwar temple of Lord Shiva, one of the
jotirlingas in the Nashik district.
The tiff apparently arose out of the dress code.
The Trimbakeshwar Devasthan Trust had decided last week to
allow women into the Lord Shiva temples sanctum sanctorum for
an hour every day, but with a condition that they should wear wet
cotton or silk clothes while offering prayers in the core area.
Activists of the Pune-based Swarajya Mahila Sanghatana, headed
by Vanita Gutte, had assembled in the morning and then they
were asked to come after bathing and in cotton clothes. When
they returned they were told that the timings to go to the
sanctum sanctorum was over.
Later they had a tiff after which they were manhandled. Nearly
200 persons were booked under IPC sections 354 (assault or
criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 341
(wrongful restraint), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke
breach of the peace), and 34 (acts done by several persons in
furtherance of common intention).
DH News Service