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In what can only be termed shocking and illogical, Shankaracharya Swaroopanand says women who enter Shani temples will invite rape according to a CNN IBN Breaking Story.
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Women who enter Shani temples will invite rape, says Shankaracharya Swaroopanand
— News18.com (@news18dotcom) April 11, 2016
Just days after Maharashtra's Shani Shingnapur temple opened its doors to women, Swaroopanand made these bizarre remarks. It took a mega campaign for women to end a centuries-old ban that said women were not permitted into the temple's inner sanctum. The courts supported the various activists and ruled that the ban was in the wrong.