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The court also directed the State Police chief to supervise the crowd control operations in and around the shrine and to deploy additional police personnel if necessary, the lawyer said.
Some vehicles have been caught in traffic for over 12 hours.
As per reports, pilgrims have been waiting for over 15 hours to get darshan on Christmas day as well, with queues starting from Neelimala.
Devotees believe that he established the 7 churches in Kollam, Niranam (in Pathanamthitta), Palayoor (Thrissur), Kodungallur (Thrissur), Nilakkal (Pathanamthitta), Kokkamangalam (Alappuzha), Kottakkavu (Ernakulam) and Arappallikal (half churches).
The serpentine queues could be witnessed even during the day on Wednesday, but the waiting period for darshan began to reduce rapidly towards the evening.
The latest “big-time” initiative is in connection with the annual ‘Nadathurarappu’ festival of Thiruvairanikulam temple near Kalady of Ernakulam district.
Police officials said that the deceased didn’t have any major health issues.
Hundreds of devotees, who had reached Ettumanoor temple the previous morning were not allowed to leave to Sabarimala citing the crowd of Erumeli and Pampa.
Manorama News reported that the queue blocks at the temple were found crowded, though no rush was seen in Sannidhanam.
Since Friday night, the hill temple has been witnessing a heavy rush of pilgrims, especially from neighbouring states.
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.jpg?w=315&h=164 "Pilgrims wait for 14 hrs in Sabarimala; TDB restores special queue system")
