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Director General of Police (CID) Ravishankar Ayyanar connected Tuesday seized important documents relating to the lawsuit of alleged swindling of overseas currency notes offered to the ‘Hundi’ successful the signifier of donations astatine the Lord Venkateswara temple astatine Tirumala.
The determination comes a time aft the Andhra Pradesh High Court pulled up the Police Department implicit its ‘slack and indifferent’ handling of the probe and nonaccomplishment to unafraid captious grounds successful time.
Addressing the media, Dr. Ayyanar confirmed that the CID had taken possession of the TTD Trust Board’s resolutions, the Lok Adalat compromise papers, the lawsuit diary, CCTV footage, and different related documents.
“All the seized documents volition beryllium produced earlier the High Court,” helium said.
The Parakamani contention dates backmost to April 2023, erstwhile allegations of large-scale theft of overseas currency notes from the temple hundi surfaced.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) had named Ravikumar, a clerk attached to the Pedda Jeeyar Mutt, arsenic the cardinal accused. However, the lawsuit took a twist erstwhile the contented was settled successful the Lok Adalat Court successful Tirupati, raising speculations against the compromise look worked out, according to which Ravikumar had reportedly talented properties worthy respective crores of rupees to the TTD, yet starring to the case’s closure.
There was a hue and outcry implicit the contented aft the NDA authorities assumed bureau successful the State. The BJP alleged that immense amounts had changed hands arsenic portion of the ‘compromise formula’, pursuing which the Andhra Pradesh High Court formed an SIT and ordered a elaborate probe.
The lawsuit has been posted for its adjacent proceeding to October 17.
