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The Kerala High Court has expressed dissatisfaction astatine the Vigilance probe into the alleged irregularities successful the merchantability of ‘Abhisheka Neyy Prasadam’ astatine Sabarimala. The tribunal directed the assignment of a caller serviceman to caput the probe and re-evaluate the findings successful the Vigilance report.
This is simply a acceptable lawsuit wherever the full substance requires reconsideration by a elder serviceman of impeccable integrity, proven competence, and capable experience. The said serviceman shall independently analyse the full records, re-evaluate the study findings, and spot a broad study earlier the tribunal wrong 4 weeks, indicating whether offences punishable nether the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and the applicable provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita are made retired against immoderate of the accused, the tribunal said.
When the substance was taken up connected May 29, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau, Pathanamthitta Unit, placed earlier the High Court a elaborate probe report. The TDB had suffered a nonaccomplishment of implicit ₹17 lakh owed to misappropriation successful ghee merchantability done 4 counters astatine the Sabarimala Sannidhanam from November 17 to December 27, 2025.
The tribunal said the Vigilance had taken the presumption that owing to the lack of due attraction of records, it was not imaginable to hole idiosyncratic work upon the committee employees who functioned arsenic temple peculiar officers and antagonistic unit during this period.
"It is stated that each 43 employees arraigned arsenic accused are collectively liable for the board’s loss. The study seeks support to record a last study earlier the Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance), Kollam, treating the lawsuit arsenic ‘further enactment dropped’ against each 43 accused, but 3rd accused Aneesh M.T. and 14th accused Sunil Kumar K.R.,” the tribunal said.
Significantly, the Vigilance had itself concluded that determination was entrustment of ghee packets to the antagonistic staff, that they were nether a corresponding work to relationship for the same, and that determination was dereliction of specified duty. The consequent proposal to adjacent the substance connected the crushed that the nonstop quantity entrusted to each worker could not beryllium determined appeared, prima facie, to beryllium incongruous with the quality of the findings recorded, the tribunal added.
“We are unable, astatine this stage, to readily subscribe to specified an approach. The probe was not intended simply to ascertain whether determination were administrative lapses successful the attraction of records. It was to ascertain the mode successful which the nonaccomplishment occurred, the systemic deficiencies that enabled it, and, astir importantly, the persons responsible,” it said.
