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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday said it would perceive connected March 19 a plea filed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chennai-based Smart Creations challenging his apprehension successful transportation with the misappropriation of golden from the Ayyappa temple astatine Sabarimala.
The Dwarapalaka (guardian deity) idols of Sabarimala were taken to Smart Creations for golden plating. Mr. Bhandari has approached the apex tribunal challenging a February 13 bid of the Kerala High Court, which dismissed his petition against his arrest.
A Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma has listed the plea connected March 19.
Before the High Court, Mr. Bhandari had claimed that his apprehension was amerciable arsenic the mandatory requirements, including intimation of the apprehension and connection of its grounds to him, were not complied with.
The prosecution had opposed his plea earlier the High Court.
Rejecting the petitioner’s contentions, the High Court had said the lone anomaly that could beryllium seen from the proceedings adopted by the arresting serviceman was that helium failed to nutrient Mr. Bhandari earlier the Special Vigilance Court successful Kollam successful time. The High Court had said that determination was a hold successful producing him earlier the peculiar tribunal owed to the clip taken for aesculapian introspection and for travelling 71 km from Thiruvananthapuram to Kollam.
The High Court said it did not deliberation that the aforesaid by itself was a crushed to state the apprehension illegal.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged misappropriation of golden from the Dwarapalaka idols and the doorway frames of the Sreekovil (sanctum sanctorum) has alleged that Mr. Bhandari and Ballari-based jeweller Govardhan Roddam played a cardinal relation successful a conspiracy to bargain golden from artefacts of the Sabarimala temple.
The SIT had alleged that Mr. Bhandari and Mr. Roddam, on with the archetypal accused Unnikrishnan Potti, planned the theft of golden entrusted to them for electroplating work.
