By PTI
INDORE: A scheduled caste organisation on Monday alleged that some “influential people” locked up a temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district to forestall a groom, a police constable, from getting into the non secular place.
Police mentioned that the builders of the temple informed them that it was shut following the demise within the household of the temple priest.
Alleging discrimination by caste, All India Balai Federation president Manoj Parmar claimed that the police constable, Meherban Parmar, wished to go to the Lord Ram temple on Sunday night time throughout his marriage procession in Bardia village.
“However, the influential people of the village locked the temple’s gate to prevent him from entering the religious place,” he claimed.
Bardia village has a inhabitants of round 5,000 and the temple is for the general public, Manoj Parmar mentioned.
However, Bhatpachlana police station in-charge Sanjay Verma mentioned that the Rajput group within the village submitted some paperwork claiming that the temple was constructed by them they usually have been sustaining the non secular place for the final a number of years.
“They informed that one person in the family of the temple priest has died and the temple is closed due to ‘sutak’ (Hindu belief of abstaining from worship for a specified period following the death of a family member),” he mentioned.
Verma mentioned the native administration will resolve whether or not the general public can go to the temple.
Police will take acceptable steps after the administration’s choice, he mentioned.
