In a high voltage drama witnessed a day after the Bombay High Court held that it was duty of the Maharashtra Government to protect the fundamental right of the women to enter temples, women activists were on Saturday prevented by aggressive villagers and temple management from entering the Shani Shingnapur temple in State’s Ahmednagar district.
Upset with the manner in which the police “assisted” the villagers and security personnel of the temple in preventing her and her colleagues from entering the Shani temple, Bhumata Ranragini Brigade chief Trupti Desai threatened to lodge an FIR against CM Devendra Fadnavis and the police for their failure to implement the High Court’s directive to enforce the Maharashtra Hindu Place of Worship (Entry Authorisation) Act 1956.