Following mid-day’s report on the black marketing of QR codes for darshan at Siddhivinayak Temple, Dadar police have started an investigation. A police team visited the temple and checked the mobile phones of shopkeepers and others working near the temple and found that 13 of them had used their phones to download QR codes many times. Cops have seized the phones for further investigation and approached the temple authorities, following which a case was registered in the matter. 

In view of the COVID-19 guidelines and to avoid crowding, devotees can only visit the Siddhivinayak temple after booking slots online for free. Once a slot is booked using the temple’s app, devotees get a QR code, which needs to be shown at the entrance of the temple to go inside.