{"id":7242,"date":"2025-09-17T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/4-kg-gold-deficit-on-sabarimala-temple-idols-hc-orders-vigilance-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:04:13","slug":"4-kg-gold-deficit-on-sabarimala-temple-idols-hc-orders-vigilance-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/?p=7242","title":{"rendered":"4-Kg Gold Deficit On Sabarimala Temple Idols: HC Orders Vigilance Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Kerala High Court&rsquo;s division bench of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Justice K.V. Jayakumar<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> has instructed the Chief Vigilance and Security Officer (Superintendent of Police) to probe suspected discrepancies in the recorded gold weight of the Dwarapalaka idols of the Sabarimala temple.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n \n <span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The alleged loss of gold surfaced during the Court&rsquo;s consideration of a suo motu petition, initiated on the basis of a Special Commissioner&rsquo;s report stating that the gold platings from the idols in the temple were removed without prior intimation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">,(which oversees the administration of the temple and is its governing body responsible for its management) with sponsorship from devotee Unnikrishnan Potty (7th respondent), had sent the items to Smart Creations (8th respondent) for electroplating.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">At the 10th September 2025 hearing, the Court had directed the TDB to bring back the gold platings removed but later it permitted the continuation of the repair works. The bench had suo motu impleaded Potty and Smart Creations and had sought production of all records relating to the repair works.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">It had also directed the Superintendent of Police, the Chief Vigilance and the Security Officer to seize the entire records concerning the gold-plating\/gold-cladding of the Dwarapalakas, the door lintel, the door panel, the Lakshmi Roopam and Kamanam, commencing from the date of the original cladding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Pursuant to these directions, on 15th September, three sets of mahazar (proof of procedures followed during the investigation) documents were produced by the Executive Officer (5th Respondent) but it was stated that he could not trace out certain mahazars which might shed light on the gold cladding\/plating of the copper plates covering the idols.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Time was accordingly given to produce the other mahazars and to ascertain the presence of another set of Dwarapalaka idols in the strong room in Aranmula.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Court Directions<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">During the hearing on 17th September, 2025, the Bench noted that the gold weight had decreased by approximately 4 kilograms after the idols were previously entrusted to the seventh respondent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The bench orally observed that, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>&quot;We are of the view that the reduction of weight of the gold cladded copper plates, the handing over of the same to the 7th respondent&#8230;the delay in production of the gold-cladded copper plate before the 8th respondent, i.e., on 29\/8\/2019, the description of the gold-cladded copper plate in the mahazar on 19th and 20th July, 2017 as merely &quot;copper plates&quot; instead of &quot;gold-cladded copper plates&quot; all call for a proper and detailed inquiry at the hands of the Vigilance and Security Officer of the Travancore Devaswom. We, therefore, direct the Vigilance and Security Officer (Superintendent of Police) to engineer a detailed inquiry with respect to the above aspects and place a detailed report before us within a period of 3 weeks.&quot;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Additionally, the Court instructed that the registers which were placed before it by the 5th respondent shall be returned for conducting a proper investigation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The TDB was directed to provide all forms of cooperation to the 5th respondent officer to ensure that the directions issued by the Court are taken forward and the truth of the matter is brought to light.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Order Awaited.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <hr \/>\n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">CASE DETAILS: Suo Motu v. State of Kerala and Ors. SSCR No. 23 of 2025<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala High Court&rsquo;s division bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar has instructed the Chief Vigilance and Security Officer (Superintendent of Police) to probe suspected discrepancies in the recorded gold weight of the Dwarapalaka idols of the Sabarimala temple. Facts: The alleged loss of gold surfaced during the Court&rsquo;s consideration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-courts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>4-Kg Gold Deficit On Sabarimala Temple Idols: HC Orders Vigilance Inquiry - Lawful Talks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"4-Kg Gold Deficit On Sabarimala Temple Idols: HC Orders Vigilance Inquiry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kerala High Court&rsquo;s division bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. 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