BSNL orders compulsory retirement of employee-woman activist who tried to enter Ayyappa temple

State-run telecommunications company,
The company said there were many agitations against entry of women into the temple during the Sabarimala pilgrimage season in 2018 and during this period, Fathima A S, "being a woman BSNL employee conducted herself in a manner that had resulted in a criminal case being filed against her and her subsequent arrest."