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Even arsenic the pilgrim travel to Sabarimala continues unabated, devotee groups person voiced beardown objections to a constabulary advisory urging those who person booked darshan done the virtual queue strategy to get strictly connected the day and clip allotted successful their passes.
According to D. Vijayakumar, wide caput of the Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sangham, 1 of the largest organisations of Ayyappa devotees, immoderate effort to modulate the question of interstate pilgrims done the virtual queue strategy volition lone make much problems. “What happens if trains from different States are delayed, oregon if postulation blockades on the Sabarimala way origin hours-long hold-ups? Insisting that devotees should adhere strictly to the allotted day and clip amounts to a usurpation of their rights,” Mr. Vijayakumar said.
In the advisory, issued earlier this week, Sannidhanam Special Police Officer R. Sreekumar stated that pilgrims should get connected the day for which they had booked their virtual queue tokens. Turning up connected a antithetic time with the aforesaid token created crowd-management issues astatine the Sannidhanam, helium noted.
Meanwhile, the fig of devotees who had darshan astatine the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple crossed 15 lakh successful 18 days. According to authoritative figures, 14,95,774 pilgrims reached the temple by 7 p.m. connected December 3 and with the post-7 p.m. footfall added, the full exceeds 15 lakh.
Steps to cheque thefts
With adjacent to 1 lakh pilgrims arriving each day, the constabulary person besides intensified measures to curb thefts astatine the elevation temple. Since the opening of the season, implicit 40 cases person been registered, including theft, assault, and disputes with taxi drivers.
Given the rising fig of pilgrims, peculiarly astatine Pampa and the Sannidhanam wherever pickpocketing has been often reported, a peculiar constabulary squad has been deployed astatine cardinal points to place and apprehend offenders. Most thefts are being reported from the Neelimala region, wherever the peculiar squad volition transportation retired intensified checks.
Surveillance has besides been strengthened successful areas specified arsenic Appachimedu, and inspections volition beryllium tightened further, said Pampa Station House Officer C.K. Manoj.
