Six BJP youth wing activists were arrested at Nilackal on Thursday for staging a protest in violation of Section 144 of CrPC, which has been clamped in the area in view of violent demonstrations against allowing women in the menstruating age group inside the Sabarimala temple.

Police removed the slogan-shouting Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) members, who launched a sit-in protest at Nilackal, the gateway to Sabarimala, soon after the BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai announced in Thiruvananthapuram that BJYM activists would violate section 144 in areas, including Nilackal.