Author yuvamind
Kerala: Former chief government auditor Vinod Rai said about 266 kilograms gold theft from the popular temple of Sree Padmanabhaswamy in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
He submitted this report to the court. This report has been get by the media that total 893 kg gold that was given out for different works but 627 kg gold has been returned to the temple.
Mr. Rai was asked by the Supreme Court last year to conduct an audit of the temple ' s books of accounts. Justice RM Lodha and Justice AK Patnaik in its meantime order last April had asked former accountant and auditor general Vinod Rai to undertake the audit of the temple accounts and properties for the past quarter of a century.
Isolated from asking Mr Rai to audit the accounts of the temple, the apex court also directed the construction of a new five-member committee comprising of a judge from the capital city, the temple tantri, chief nambi of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple and two more members, of which one will be ordained in consultation with the state government and one 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 has been found in the other five vaults have been estimated to be valued more than Rs. 100,000 crore.
From that time, armed security guards besides state of the art security equipment has been appointed for the safe of this treasure , Communist Party of India-Marxist legislator V Sivankutty said that a few years back all hell broke loose when VS Achuthanandan said that things are not going in the way it should go in the temple as far as the priceless treasures upkeep are concerned and blamed the Travancore royal family.