SABARIMALA: Sabarimala temple that opened on Monday for Chithira Attam at 5pm closed with the singing of Harivarasanam… after 5-hr-long pujas and darshan.

The temple will open again on Tuesday at 5 am. Devotees who climbed the hillock stayed put at Nadapandal where they have settled down for a nap.

There is no tension at Sannidhanam currently. But people are continuing to climb the hillock from Pamba for 5 am darshan.

Police informed that about 7000 people had darshan yesterday while last year this time, there were only 1000 devotees.

Earlier, a Cherthala woman (25) made an aborted attempt to climb Sabarimala. On being questioned by the police, she said her husband had forced her to take up the pilgrimage along with their children and she had no wish to visit Sabarimala at that age.