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The constabulary arrested a pistillate for allegedly breaking unfastened a temple donation container and stealing currency from it astatine Puzhakkalthara, adjacent Kollengode, successful Palakkad, Kerala.
The accused, Prabhavati, 42, of Cheruvil House, Kanimangalam, was arrested aft an probe based connected surveillance camera footage from the temple premises and adjacent areas.
Prabhavati had contested the 2020 section assemblage elections from Ward 17 of the Nenmara grama panchayat connected a BJP ticket. BJP leaders said she had been expelled from the party.
According to the police, the theft took spot connected Friday nighttime astatine the Puzhakkalthara Mariamman Temple. She allegedly broke unfastened the fastener of the donation container successful beforehand of the temple and stole astir ₹10,000.
The theft came to airy connected Saturday greeting erstwhile temple office-bearers and the clergyman arrived for the day’s rituals and recovered the donation container breached open.
The constabulary examined CCTV footage, which reportedly showed a pistillate breaking unfastened the donation container during the night. Based connected the footage, the constabulary identified Prabhavati and took her into custody from her house.
The constabulary said she was an accused successful an earlier cheating lawsuit involving the alleged usage of imitation golden ornaments to defraud respective radical of lakhs of rupees.
Prabhavati was produced earlier a tribunal and remanded successful judicial custody.
