Puri: Mild tension prevailed for some time near the Shree Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s Puri Tuesday, after jostling among devotees on the occasion of ‘Dola Purnima’ led to a brief commotion, officials said.
However, no injuries were reported, and the situation was promptly brought under control, they said.
A woman devotee fell down due to a defect in her dress. Woman police personnel assisted her, and she was back on her feet without any injury, Puri SP Prateek Singh told PTI over the phone.
A large number of devotees had gathered outside the temple on the occasion of ‘Dola Purnima’ Tuesday.
A few hundred of them rushed towards the site where idols of gods and goddesses were placed on a pandal, leading to brief congestion. The crowd thinned out within minutes, and normalcy was restored, police said.
