Devotees at Sri Kshetra Gejjegiri in Puttur protested after a textile showroom in Mangaluru supplied used and damaged saris for their annual festival. The temple distributed these saris to women devotees as part of a ritual. The shop owner promised to replace the defective saris, attributing the issue to a factory in Surat.
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