266 kg of gold missing from Sree Padmanabhaswamy In Kerala Temple:
February 14, 2015 0:17
Photo: Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala: as much as 266 kg of gold is missing Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram famous, says former chief Vinod Rai government auditor in the audit submitted to the apex court report.
The highlight of the report was obtained by the media revealed that of the 893 kg of gold was given for various works, only 627 kg was returned to the temple."Mr. Rai was asked by the Supreme Court last year to conduct an audit of the books of accounts of the temple."
A division bench of Justice RM Lodha of the AK Patnaik and Justice in its interim order last April had asked former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai to undertake the audit of the temple of the accounts and the properties for the last quarter century.
The directive came on the recommendations of Gopal Subramaniam amicus curiae, who had sought the overhaul of the operation of the temple.
Apart from asking Mr. Rai to audit the accounts of the temple, the apex court also ordered the formation of a new committee of five members including a judge of the capital, the Tantri temple, Nambi chief temple of Sri Padmanabhaswamy and two other members, one of whom will be appointed in consultation with the State Government and would be the choice of the judge.
It was in July 2011 that an apex court committee stumbled upon six vaults in the temple and with just vault B left to be opened, the treasure that was found in the other five vaults were estimated at a value of more than Rs. 100,000 crore.
Since then, armed security guards outside the state of the art security equipment has been deployed for the safe maintenance of this treasure.
Reacting to the new developments, the Communist Party of India-Marxist legislator V Sivankutty said that a few years ago all hell broke loose when VS Achuthanandan said that things do not go the way he should go into the temple until the priceless treasures maintenance are concerned and blamed the royal family of Travancore.
"Look, what Mr. Rai was released in its report. There are points of view in some quarters that the questions of the temple should be stifled. Now, with this report, responsibilities should be set and those who caused this should be brought to light, "he said.The former Travancore royal family with its headquarters in the capital is however not yet responded to the report of Mr. Rai
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