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Criticising the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) for its alleged nonaccomplishment to support due registers of valuables astatine the Sabarimala temple, the Kerala High Court has directed that a broad inventory and adept valuation of the valuables astatine the temple beryllium carried out.
The tribunal appointed K.T. Sankaran, retired justice of the Kerala High Court, to depute a reputed and trustworthy jewel appraiser of proven expertise to behaviour an appraisal of each items successful the beardown room, those recorded successful the Thiruvabharanam registry and those which are gold-cladded.
Such documentation is important to measure the nonstop quantity and worthy of the temple’s valuables, the tribunal said and directed the Vigilance Officer to analyse ‘lapses’ connected the substance by Devaswom officials. This comes successful the aftermath of a study submitted by the Sabarimala Special Commissioner regarding the alleged removal of gold-claded copper coverings of the Dwarapalaka idols from the temple without his support and their proscription to a steadfast successful Chennai for repair works.
A Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar was proceeding the proceedings initiated suo motu connected the ground of a study submitted by the Special Commissioner connected the issue.
‘Continue probe’
The tribunal went connected to nonstop the Chief Vigilance and Security Officer to proceed the probe successful a steadfast mode and to bring to airy the discrepancies. He besides ought to analyse the lapses, if any, by Devaswom officials, considering that the gold-cladded copper coverings were handed implicit to the sponsor, Unnikrishnan Potty, successful a precise casual manner. The substance has been posted for proceeding successful October end.
The High Court had connected September 17 ordered a probe into the alleged discrepancies that led to the value of the gold-cladded copper coverings coming down by implicit 4 kg from 42.80 kg, since 2019. The aforesaid day, it directed the Chief Vigilance and Security Officer (a Superintendent of Police) of the TDB to analyse the substance and taxable a study wrong 3 weeks.
