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Kerala Minister for Devaswoms V.N. Vasavan connected Monday welcomed the high-level probe ordered by the Kerala High Court into the golden ‘theft’ enactment astatine the Sabarimala temple, adjacent arsenic helium noted that the contented goes backmost to 2019 and raking it up present was aimed astatine tarnishing the Global Ayyappa Sangamam conclave.
Addressing a property league here, Mr. Vasavan accused the Congress-led Opposition UDF of deliberately portraying it arsenic thing new.
Stating that the Kerala authorities has religion successful the tribunal determination and would afloat cooperate with it, Mr. Vasavan expressed his condemnation that the court-ordered probe would assistance uncover the afloat facts related to the substance dating from 1998 (from the clip Vijay Mallya’s UB Group donated golden to the temple) to the present.
The incidents pertaining to the contention took spot not now, but successful 2019, Mr. Vasavan said.
The Minister besides indicated that lapses whitethorn person occurred successful owed process erstwhile the metallic plaques were taken to Chennai for gold-plating by Unnnikrishnan Potty, a erstwhile helper astatine the Sabarimala temple who is astatine the centre of the controversy, successful 2019. Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) officials did not travel him astatine the time, which was a lapse.
“Let each aspects of the incidental beryllium investigated,” helium said. At the aforesaid time, the State authorities does not interfere successful the day-to-day activities of the TDB, said Mr. Vasavan.
He reiterated his suspicion that the timing of the contiguous contention pointed to a conspiracy.
Mr. Potty has levelled his allegations astir missing artifacts connected September 17 – conscionable 3 days earlier the conclave.
The missing artefacts were aboriginal recovered from his sister’s house.
