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The Additional District and Sessions Court, Padmanabhapuram has acquitted 18 persons convicted successful theft cases related to Adikesava Perumal temple successful Thiruvattar connected Thursday.
The case, which is implicit 3 decades old, pertains to the theft of golden ornaments, precious stones and diamond crown from a 2000- year- aged shrine. The statue of Adikesava Perumal, successful a 22 feet-long resting posture (sayana kolam) is made of mustard jaggery and medicinal works extract substance and covered with golden armour.
Over respective years, devotees reported gradual theft of ornaments and precious stones, prompting the past Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to bid a CB-CID probe successful 1992. The probe led to betterment of 4.50 kg of golden from immoderate of the 35 accused, including main clergyman Kesavan Potri, who allegedly died by termination adjacent arsenic CB-CID probe was going on. Hence, a lawsuit was registered against 34 persons of which 10 died owing to aged property and fewer of them died by termination during the people of trial.
One accused went underground, leaving 23 to look trial.
In 2019, Nagercoil First Judicial Magistrate Court convicted each 23 accused and awarded six years of imprisonment to 14 of them and slapped a good of ₹3.70 lakh connected Gopinathan Nair and ₹3.50 lakh connected Gopalakrishnan. Others were imposed a good of ₹10,000 and 3 were awarded 3 years imprisonment.
Following much than 10 appeals seeking to overturn the verdict, the lawsuit was transferred from District and Sessions Court successful Nagercoil to Padmanabhapuram.
P. Ramachandran, Additional District and Sessions Judge successful his bid acquitted 18 convicts, citing insufficient grounds and impervious from the authorities side. Of the 23, 5 individuals had died during the pendency of the trial.
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