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Two dolly workers were arrested for allegedly cheating Ayyappa devotees by offering to put darshan astatine the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple .
The arrested were identified arsenic Kannan (31) and Raghu R. (27), some natives of Peerumade successful Idukki district. According to police, the incidental occurred connected October 18 erstwhile the elevation shrine was unfastened for the Thulam period pooja.
A radical of devotees from Kasaragod had arrived for darshan. Amid the dense unreserved astatine Sabarimala, the accused approached the radical adjacent Marakoottam and offered to instrumentality them straight for darshan, bypassing the queue. The devotees paid ₹10,000 to the duo, who took them up to the vicinity of Vavar shrine a Sannidhanam and past disappeared.
Following a preliminary enquiry by the Travancore Devaswom Board Vigilance into complaints of devotees being cheated, Pamba constabulary registered a case. Police examined aggregate CCTV camera visuals and identified the accused .
The accused were produced earlier the Ranni tribunal and remanded to the Kottarakkara sub-jail connected Thursday.
Police said a proposal has been sent to the Travancore Devaswom Board to cancel the dolly permits of the accused.
