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The peculiar probe squad (SIT) that has been probing the alleged misappropriation of golden from the Sabarimala temple connected Monday submitted a ‘progress report’ earlier the Kerala High Court connected the probe into the matter.
The report, submitted by S. Sasidharan, the investigating serviceman of the SIT, pertains to the probe into the gold-plated/gold-clad copper plates of the temple, which had been sent to the National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur, successful March.
He mentioned that the study is highly broad and, erstwhile work unneurotic with the study submitted by the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), provides a wide representation of the methodology adopted (for the alleged theft of gold).
A Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar observed that it cautiously went done the broad study regarding the NML findings and recovered that it would spell a agelong mode successful identifying the mode successful which the pilferage of golden was carried retired astatine the Sabarimala Sannidhanam.
The SIT study says that successful 2019, Smart Creations, Chennai, stripped the golden cladding from the artefacts utilizing a peculiar brackish known arsenic “stripping salt”, procured from Mumbai. In the people of the investigation, a illustration of the brackish was collected and forwarded to the NML, Jamshedpur for technological analysis, the results of which are awaited. The investigation of the peculiar brackish is important to establishing the method adopted by Smart Creations for stripping golden from the artefacts, says the SIT report.
However, the Prabhamandalam plates and the upper-side doorway framework sheet could not beryllium dismantled and examined, owing to difficulties raised by the skilled labourers engaged for the dismantling work, says the report. It besides seeks to dismantle the Prabhamandalam plates and the upper-side doorway framework sheet and to cod samples therefrom with the assistance of experts.
Based connected this, the High Court granted support to the SIT to dismantle these items and guardant them to the laboratory for analysis.
Furthermore, Mr. Sasidharan submitted earlier the High Court that the probe has reached its last stages, with respect to the incidents starring to the removal and disposal of the Dwarapalakas successful 2025 are concerned, and requested that the substance beryllium posted connected 18.06.2026 to alteration the SIT to apprise the tribunal of the further developments and the culpability and relation of the persons involved.
