Woman IAS officer once visited Sabarimala at 41 with court order 
KB Valsala Kumari, an IAS officer, visited Sabarimala during 1994-95, when she was 41, as part of her official duty, after the Kerala High Court allowed Kumari to visit the shrine. "I had no permission to...see the Lord Ayyappa idol...I prayed...while standing below the...steps," she said. Kumari was later entrusted with a sanitation drive at the shrine by the government.