India, Feb. 8 -- Heavy devotee influx since Friday night, resulted in roads of different localities in the city as well as approach roads to Mahakumbh Nagar and all bathing ghats getting choked on Saturday. Traffic jams and bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported even in the outskirts of the city on almost all routes leading inwards.

Official records revealed, by 8am 32.31 lakh devotees had bathed in the Ganga which increased to 71.46 lakh at noon, while the count further swelled to 87.14 lakh at 2pm, and crossed the 1.32 crore mark by the end of the day.

Records revealed that on Friday, the count of devotees having taken the dip since commencement of Mela had crossed the 40-crore mark with 40.68 crore devotees having bathed in holy water...