9 heads, 300 years of worship: Ravana gets police protection in this MP town, not a pyre

In Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district, a 300-year-old Ravana idol is preserved inside the Kothi police station.Bhopal: While police across the country oversee Dussehra celebrations that culminate in Ravana’s effigy going up in flames, a police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district does something rather unusual, it protects the demon king who’s worshipped here by devotees.