Video: Watch Trupti Desai and other women activists offering prayer at the sanctum sanctorum of Shani Shingnapur temple

Two videos shows women entering sanctum sanctorum and making a water offering to Lord Shani .

April 8, 2016, NewsCrunch

Trupti Desai and a fellow woman activist  climbed the platform of the Shani Shingnapur temple and entered the sanctum sanctorum on Friday.

As they entered the premise, a security guard manning the gate leading to the sanctum sanctorum, opened it bringing to an end a successful agitation against the 400-year-old discrimination against women.

A video from Times Now shows the two women making  a water offering to Lord Shani .


It has been a tradition for male devotees to offer the water after performing a pooja on Gudi Padwa every year, which fell on Friday.
Sayaram Bankar, a trustee of Shani Shingnapur temple, said the trustees decided to facilitate entry of women as well after the men's group forced their way in.

The Bombay High Court had on April 1 held that it is the women's fundamental right to go into places of worship and the government was duty-bound to protect it.

A women's group , Bhoomata Brigade led by activist  Trupti Desai had been agitating for the entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of the Shani Shingnapur temple.

Video: Watch Trupti Desai and other women activists climbing the platform at Shani Shingnapur temple