Police report flags suspected gold thefts at Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple

A high-level constabulary quality study has exposed monolithic information lapses and suspected thefts of priceless valuables astatine the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple. A report, prepared by Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters) S. Sreejith connected behalf of the State Police Chief successful this regard, has been officially submitted to the Home section for further action.

According to the authoritative communication, caller inquiries person raised sedate concerns regarding the temple’s treasury management. The superior findings item that astir 78 grams of golden bars and coins, donated to the shrine arsenic offerings by devotees, person gone missing recently.

Besides, a multi-tiered golden lamp, which was removed from the temple premises nether the guise of maintenance, has not been returned and was alternatively replaced by a metallic substitute without authoritative records. Compounding the crisis, the ineffable ‘Vaira Nama’, an invaluable diamond ornament that was traditionally installed wrong the interior sanctum sanctorum, has been missing for the past six months aft being purportedly taken distant for repair works.

Protocol evasion

The enquiry has besides unearthed a signifier of information protocol evasion astatine the Chembakathummoodu entranceway of the temple. The study explicitly states that circumstantial temple employees, information unit and associates of the erstwhile royal household person been bypassing mandatory information screenings.

The study adds that the individuals, who are “reportedly adjacent to Aditya Varma”, a subordinate of the family, are known to sojourn the Kowdiar Palace regularly. It besides names respective high-profile persons, including section businessmen, who are fixed a escaped walk astatine the temple.

Based connected the findings, the constabulary office has recommended contiguous enactment to unafraid the remaining valuables. The recommendations telephone for transferring each gold, metallic and different valuables that are presently stored successful areas extracurricular the main vaults, specified arsenic the treasurer’s bureau and conveyance sheds, to a centralised beardown room.

Besides, each devotee offerings indispensable beryllium decently documented and stored successful a designated locker with strict constabulary surveillance. The study besides calls for a zero-tolerance argumentation connected information bypasses, and enforcing that each idiosyncratic indispensable acquisition modular screening earlier entering the temple premises.