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The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has informed the Kerala High Court that the fig of assistants to Melsanthis (head priests) astatine the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple and the Malikappuram Devi temple volition beryllium constricted to four.
Police verification volition beryllium done anterior to their selection. The fig of assistants to Keezhsanthis volition beryllium constricted to two, the TDB told the court.
The High Court had directed the TDB successful October 2025 to taxable the details and the norms being followed to prime the assistants to Melsanthis (head priests) of the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple and the Malikappuram Devi temple by October 31. The tribunal specifically sought details similar however galore specified assistants are there, erstwhile they were appointed and whether constabulary verification was done earlier appointing them.
The TDB further informed the tribunal that a proposition to bounds the work play of radical serving arsenic parikarmis (assistants) to 5 years was not practical. This could pb to a shortage of radical with dependable cognition of rituals astatine the temple.
The substance has been posted for orders.
