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The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) Pathanamthitta portion connected Wednesday arrested K.R. Sunilkumar Potti, a erstwhile clergyman and Devaswom employee, for his alleged engagement successful a large fiscal fraud during the 2025 Sabarimala Mandala-Makaravilakku season.
The accused, a autochthonal of Aroor successful Alappuzha, was antecedently serving arsenic a clergyman astatine the Chaliyekkara Bhadrakali temple nether the Punalur radical of the TDB. During the pilgrimage season, helium had been officially deputed by the committee to oversee the merchantability of ‘Aadiya Shishtam Neyyu’ (ghee near implicit aft the offering) astatine Sabarimala.
The apprehension follows a elaborate probe into the irregularities surrounding the merchantability of ghee packets during the festival period. According to the Vigilance department, devaswom employees entrusted with the merchantability of these packets manipulated banal records and failed to remit the afloat proceeds to the Board’s account. This systemic embezzlement resulted successful a important fiscal nonaccomplishment of ₹36,24,400 to the board. The fraudulent enactment was uncovered aft discrepancies were noted betwixt the existent banal sold and the gross officially accounted for by the deputed staff.
Sunilkumar Potti was arrested pursuing the registration of a lawsuit by the Pathanamthitta Vigilance portion successful transportation with the fiscal nonaccomplishment incurred by the board. He volition beryllium produced earlier the Vigilance Court successful Kollam.
