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The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department has effected the transportation of K. Ramu, Joint Commissioner and Executive Officer of the Subramanya Swami Temple successful Tiruchendur.
A. Arunachalam, Joint Commissioner/Executive Officer from the Devi Karumariamman Temple successful Thiruverkadu, volition regenerate him.
N. Yagnanarayanan, verification serviceman from Tiruchi region, is being posted arsenic Deputy Commissioner astatine the Thiruchendur temple, filling up a vacancy.
Similarly, S. Meivel, Assistant Commissioner astatine Thiruchendur, is being transferred to the Meenakshi Amman Temple successful Madurai, successful spot of P.S. Lokanathan, who has been posted to Thiruchendur.
Secretary J. Kumaragurubaran said the transfers and postings were being done with the payment of the temple medication and the nationalist successful mind.
Sting operation
The transfers travel a caller sting cognition by the HR&CE Minister S. Ramesh, who went incognito to the temple and caught a clergyman and immoderate staffers accepting wealth for arranging darshan.
The clergyman has since been suspended.
A retired authoritative of the HR&CE said that the section unit had nary power implicit the priests successful the temple, and that lone the trustee could question them.
In galore temples, darshan was arranged by outsiders who were successful cahoots with priests oregon low-level staffers, the retired authoritative added.
