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The Guruvayur Devaswom connected Thursday claimed determination were nary irregularities successful its functioning and warned of strict ineligible enactment against those spreading falsehoods against the temple absorption body.
Chairman V.K. Vijayan contended that immoderate quality media were spreading “baseless and untrue” reports regarding the absorption of valuables received by the Sri Krishna temple here.
In a Facebook post, the devaswom said nary golden bars oregon different valuables had been mislaid from the temple and details of each specified valuables had been accurately recorded successful the banal register. It said immoderate quality to the contrary was intended to mislead the temple’s devotees.
The temple absorption body’s effect comes days aft quality reports claimed that successive Kerala authorities audits of the Guruvayur Devaswom successful 2019-20 and 2020-21 recovered a deficiency of carnal verification of temple valuables, important discrepancies betwixt income and expenditure figures, and mediocre grounds keeping.
Denying specified reports, the Guruvayur Devaswom termed arsenic ridiculous the quality that it paid for the cutting of elephant tusks successful 2019, but determination was nary ivory successful stock. It said the Forest section took implicit the pieces chopped successful the beingness of their officials, on with the particulate generated during the cutting of the tusks, and kept them successful their custody.
“The devaswom lone bears the outgo of cutting the tusks,” it said.
It besides contended that nary golden had been mislaid from the temple and the full banal of the precious metals, including silver, was accounted for and safely kept successful lockers.
The devaswom further said immoderate golden that was not utilized for temple needs was melted and turned into bars and deposited successful the SBI Bullion Branch successful Mumbai nether the golden deposit scheme. “It earns involvement there,” the devaswom said.
It further said it had ne'er entrusted the refining of golden and metallic items to backstage individuals oregon institutions. “This is done with utmost information astatine the Government of India mint, and the banal is recorded,” it said.
Regarding references to the audit study successful the quality articles, the devaswom said it had submitted a connection successful the Kerala High Court astir issues mentioned successful the 2019-20 audit report, and therefore, it cannot remark connected the matter.
It said the mode a conception of the media was “deliberately making mendacious stories” against Guruvayur Devaswom was wholly ridiculous, and a ailment would beryllium filed with the Press Council of India and the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting regarding it.
The quality emerged amid contention implicit the disappearance of golden from the Ayyappa temple astatine Sabarimala.
