Activist Trupti Desai on Saturday said they have put up a meeting with the authorities of the Shani Shignapur temple. She said they are demanding that women should be allowed to enter the platform of the temple. She added that the temple authorities are dominating on the name of 400-year-old tradition to keep women out of the temple.

Bhumata brigade activist Trupti Desai was detained by the police in Ahmednagar on Monday while she was leading a group to the Shani Shingnapur temple. Desai is leading a movement to break the gender barrier at the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra