A day after Malyalam actor Kollam Thulasi threatened to rip women who try to enter Sabarimala, Chavara police on Saturday filed a case against him.

According to media reports, the complaint was filed by a Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activist.

In a speech at the Sabarimala verdict protest rally on Friday, the actor said that, “women coming to Sabarimala temple should be ripped in half. One half should be sent to Delhi and the other half should be thrown to chief minister’s office in Thiruvananthapuram.”

Thulasi made these comments while speaking at the ‘SaveSabarimala’ march at Chavara in Kollam. BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai who is leading the march and other BJP leaders were present on the stage when Thulasi made the statement.

He went on to say that the judges who delivered the judgment on Sabarimala are idiots.

“The elderly woman taking part in the protest against the judgment should go to Sabarimala. Then those women should rip apart the ones who try to enter the temple,” he said.

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The five-day long march under National Democratic Alliance led by the BJP, was flagged off from Pandalam, Lord Ayyappa’s birth place, on Wednesday. It will conclude in Thiruvananthapuram on 15 October.

Meanwhile, amidst strong sentiments against the Supreme Court’s verdict allowing women in the 10-50 age group into the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala, gender equality activist Trupti Desai said on Saturday that she was still determined to visit it.

“We will announce a date very soon to visit the Sabarimala Temple as the apex court has upheld the fundamental rights of women… There should be no attempt to stop us because we now have equal rights,” Desai said while speaking to a Malayalam TV channel in Mumbai. She has played a major role in opening up to women shrines like Mumbai’s Haji Ali dargah that were hitherto closed to them.

Rahul Eashwar, a member of the Sabarimala tantric family requested Desai to desist from coming to the temple.

“We will be staging a protest in true Gandhian style if there is any attempt to break the traditions and culture of the temple. We request her to pray in other Ayyappa temples in the state and not at the Sabarimala temple,” Eashwar told the media.

The temple doors will open on October 18 for its routine monthly pujas.