Bindu Ammini

WHRD

Kerala

HRDA has issued an urgent appeal to the National Human Rights Commission of India on December 27, 2021, regarding the repeated attacks on Women Human Rights Defender, Ms Bindu Ammini, by political goons due to lack of round the clock protection by the Kerala Police that was ordered by the Supreme Court.

As per the Supreme Court decision, a woman between the ages of ten and fifty are allowed to enter the Sabarimala Temple. Ms. Ammini on December 22, 2018, along with three other women, tried to go inside the Sabarimala temple but were stopped by protesters. They went on a hunger strike to protest the lack of police protection and then on January 2, 2019, she entered the temple and was forced to go into hiding somewhere in the temple. Therefore, her house was mobbed by people belonging to Sabarimala Karma Samiti and other organizations as a reprisal against her entry to Sabarimala. 

The Supreme Court ordered to grant full protection round the clock to the WHRD Ms. Bindu Ammini. The Kerala government withdrew its support and police protection for women entering the temple pending the decision of the Supreme Court. Ms. Ammini was attacked in a hit-and-run incident by an autorickshaw under the jurisdiction of the Koyilandy police station on 18 December and suffered severe injuries in her head, mouth, and teeth. an FIR was registered under sections IPC 324, 307 in the Koyilandy police station on December 19 based on the incident. However, no arrests have been made to date. Ms Ammini has alleged that there have been other such attacks on her life also.

We strongly believed that this incident was due to a lack of protection by the Kerala police, despite orders by the Supreme Court of giving her round the clock and full police protection.