Trupti Desai, Bhumata Brigade Members Detained Again in Nashik

Bhumata brigade, Trupti Desai detained again for trying to enter Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik.

Activist Trupti Desai with members of Bhumata Brigade in Nandur Shingote, Nashik on Tuesday, 8 March 2016. (Photo Courtesy: ANI)

Activist Trupti Desai and members of the Bhumata brigade were detained by the police on Tuesday morning for trying to enter the Trimbakeshwar temple near Nandur Shingote region in Nashik, Maharashtra.

The police let the women go by 1:20 pm on Tuesday itself.

The activist group tried to enter the temple, which is traditionally closed for women worshippers, hours after they were detained for the same on Monday evening.

Also read: Desai’s Bhumata Brigade Detained En Route to Trimbakeshwar Temple

Why are we being stopped from proceeding to Trimbakeshwar temple? Whatever the police is doing is wrong. 

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Activist Trupti Desai and Bhumata Brigade members in Nandur Shingote, Nashik on Tuesday, 8 March 2016. (Photo Courtesy: ANI)

Desai and supporters had tried to enter the inner sanctum of the Shani Singnapur temple – which also bans women’s entry – on 26 January 2016 in Ahmednagar region of Maharashtra.

Trupti Desai and other women activists who attempted to enter the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra. (Photo Courtesy: ANI)

The activist group seeking gender equality tried to enter the Trimbakeshwar temple on the occasion of Maha Shiv Ratri on Monday.

(With agency inputs)