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The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department has dismissed R. Krishnasamy from his beingness trustee presumption astatine the Dharmalingeswarar Temple adjacent Madukkarai aft an enquiry confirmed fiscal and administrative irregularities.
Former trustee C.K. Kannan, who approached the Madras High Court connected the issue, said that a six-member committee appointed by the tribunal precocious completed its enquiry into allegations of mismanagement, unaccounted donations and unauthorised construction. The enquiry recovered that Krishnasamy had appointed trustees without pursuing procedures, undertaken operation without departmental support and failed to support records of income, assets and expenditure.
The committee reported that donations collected done slips ranging from ₹50 to ₹1 lakh were not accounted for. Temple onshore measuring 25.15 acres and valued astatine astir ₹125 crore had besides been concealed, resulting successful nonaccomplishment of imaginable revenue. Income from temple shops, mandapams, slope accounts and golden and metallic offerings had not been recorded. Festival collections from impermanent donation boxes were besides recovered to beryllium unaccounted for.
The enquiry established 29 charges, including wealth laundering and fiscal misappropriation implicit a play of much than 3 decades. Following the submission of the report, the HR&CE Department appointed a abstracted serviceman to formalise the temple’s accounts.
