The authorities of the Mahalaxmi temple have been meeting police officials from Gamdevi police station and Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone II Nissar Tamboli regularly for the past few days, to finalise security and crowd management plans. They have unfurled a list of dos and don’ts for the nine-day Navratri festival that begins on Tuesday.

People standing in queues stretching all the way to Haji Ali outside Mahalaxmi temple will have to abide by certain rules: no steel thalis, preferably no mobile phones or large bags, and no hanging around the temple area after darshan.