MHA asks Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka to step up security

New Delhi: The home ministry has directed the southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka to further intensify security deployment in the wake of the ongoing protest to allow women of all age groups to the Sabarimala temple following a Supreme Court directive.

The ministry has asked the states to issue prohibitory orders in areas where there is a possibility of law and order being disrupted as well as closely monitor all social media platforms for dissemination of adverse or false information and propaganda.

The advisory also referred to campaigns of certain civil and women’s rights activists, Left parties and fronts and pro-Left wing extremism groups in favour of women’s entry into the shrine and actively using women to do so.