The management of the Siddhivinayak temple here has decided to install jammers at the shrine due to an increase in threat perception.
MUMBAI: The management of the Siddhivinayak temple here has decided to install jammers at the shrine due to an increase in threat perception.
Devotees thronging the Lord Ganesh temple in Prabhadevi have not been allowed to offer garlands and coconuts from June 18 in view of the increase in threat, police said.
The people, who are now frisked and have their baggage put through scanners, will be under watch via closed circuit cameras, said Siddhivinayak Temple Trust chairman Subash Mayekar.
"We will install jammers soon so that they can block signals for any remote-controlled (explosive) devices and prevent blasts in the temple," he said, adding these precautionary measures were for the safety of devotees.
He said: "Police asked us to take precautionary measures and we decided to go hi-tech.
A senior police official said: "There has been some increase in the threat perception, due to which we recommended to the temple management that it should increase security."
A couple of days ago, Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil, who holds the home portfolio, had asked the joint commissioner of police (law and order) to give a status report on security at the temple by Wednesday.
The temple, which is visited by large numbers of people and VIPs and celebrities, has been on the hit list of terrorists, police said.
It has a bullet-proof fortified wall around it with only one entry point for devotees.
The offering of coconuts and garlands was banned at the government-controlled Sai Baba temple in Shirdi near Nashik, which is also facing a threat from terrorists.
Some other government-controlled temples include the Mahalakshni temple in Kolhapur and the Vittal temple in Pandarpur.
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