A group of devotees, mostly women, allegedly broke the lock on the entrance gate of a lake in Maharashtra's Palghar district after authorities prohibited Chhath Puja celebrations at the site, police said on Sunday.

The incident occurred on Saturday evening at Nagela lake in the Gala Nagar area of Nalasopara, where authorities had barred devotees from performing the festival rituals and locked the main entrance to enforce the restriction.