NEW DELHI: The head of a lawyers group fighting for the right of women to enter a famous Hindu temple in southern India said he had received hundreds of death threats warning him to drop the petition in the country’s top court.
The popular Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala state is one of a few in India which bar women of reproductive age, allowing entry only to girls aged under 10 and women over 50.
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