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Three persons were arrested adjacent Arunachaleswarar temple successful Tiruvannamalai connected Wednesday for selling fake car parking passes to devotees to parkland vehicles wrong the municipality connected Maha Deepam (December 3) day.
The arrested persons were identified arsenic K. Silambarasan, 30, a temple staffer, R. Babu, 44, and G. Munusamy, 39. Silambarasan printed fake peculiar passes and distributed them to devotees, particularly from neighbouring States similar Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to parkland their vehicles adjacent the temple wrong the town. Each walk was sold betwixt ₹200 and ₹500.
Police said the fake passes resembled the archetypal escaped peculiar passes issued by the territory medication to peculiar guests, including elder authorities officials and elected representatives, to parkland their vehicles astatine designated car parking lots. Police said the existing impermanent car parking is located acold distant from the town, making it hard for devotees, particularly elder citizens and women, to locomotion to the temple for darshan connected Maha Deepam day.
Based connected a tip-off, Tiruvannamalai East constabulary searched the Yatri Nivas accommodation analyzable successful the municipality and recovered fake peculiar passes with the suspects. A lawsuit was registered, and the arrested persons were lodged astatine a sub-jail successful the town. Further probe is nether way.
