THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Protesters at Nilakkal near Pampa have attacked several women journalists and Sneha Mary Koshy is one among them. NDTV had collected more than Rs 10 cr for Kerala flood relief and Sneha Mary Koshy was on the forefront of this disaster relief programme called 'Lelithon'. She was attacked by the protesters at Nilakkal.

Loknath Behra has clarified that protection will be ensured for journalists and they will be arrested immediately.

Women journalists were heckled, their vehicles smashed and young female Ayyappa devotees turned back as hordes of Hindu right activists besieged the road leading to the Sabarimala temple whose gates open for women of menstrual age Wednesday evening for the first time after the Supreme Court's verdict.

The political slugfest over the Kerala government's decision not to file a review petition against the apex court order also escalated as tempers frayed in areas surrounding the hill shrine that were on edge.