{"id":5771,"date":"2005-12-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/17\/2005-12-17-dalit-women-attackedfined-for-entering-temple\/"},"modified":"2005-12-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T12:00:00","slug":"2005-12-17-dalit-women-attackedfined-for-entering-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/17\/2005-12-17-dalit-women-attackedfined-for-entering-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalit Women Attacked\/Fined for Entering Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_1573805,000900030010.htm\">hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 15, 2005: Another controversy over temple entry has hit Orissa. In Keraragard village in Kendrapara district, four Dalit women who entered a temple were beaten and later fined US$22.24 (a considerable sum) by the village panchayat. Sebati Muduli, Annapurna Mahali, Jharana Jena and Sakuntala Muduli had entered the Jagannath temple in Keraragard as a matter of right, as only non-Hindus are barred from entering some temples. But this invited the wrath of the priests and upper-caste villagers. After the women were beaten, the village panchayat issued a decree to recover $22.24 from them &#8212; to spend on temple-purification rituals. BJD MP Mohan Jena said, &#8220;If the women who entered the temple are Hindus, then why should they be barred from entering the temple? The mindset of such upper-caste people who oppose the entry of Dalits into temples should change, otherwise the Hindu religion will crumble.&#8221; The priests, however, remained unmoved. Niranjan Panda, head priest of the temple in Kerargard, defended the practice. &#8220;The entry of scheduled caste people has been prohibited for many years,&#8221; he said. Kendrapara SP Pratik Mohanty said: &#8220;The district collector has ordered a probe. Depending upon the findings, the district police will take action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hindustantimes.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 15, 2005: Another controversy over temple entry has hit Orissa. In Keraragard village in Kendrapara district,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}