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KOZHIKODE: Bindu Thankam Kalyani, 43, the Kozhikode- based activist and school teacher who was forced to abandon her journey to Sabarimala temple on Monday after protests by an unruly mob near Erumely , continued to face threats even after her return to Kozhikode on Tuesday.

Bindu, who reached Kozhikode in the wee hours of Tuesday, said that the landlord asked her not to come to the rented house at Chevayoor forcing her to seek refuge in the flat of a friend at 4 am.

She had to seek police protection after some residents in the apartment complex asked her to move out allegedly after some people raised protests against her stay there.

The police team reached the apartment at around 9.30 am and took her to the Kasaba police station and was allowed to go to a house of a relative in an undisclosed location.

Bindu, who is a teacher at a higher secondary school in Chevayoor, said that she was also unable to go to work as school authorities asked her to stay back for the moment following security concerns as some people had staged protest march to the school on Monday.

"I don't know where to go. The house owner has asked me not to come to the house as he has been warned by some protesters that they will attack the house if I stay there. I think they want to force me out to the streets where they can attack me," she added.

Kasaba police said that Bindu has gone to a house of her relative.

