Summary:
A priest who arrives for duty verifies if the jewellery adorned to the presiding/processional deities are intact and orally confirms the same. Similar lapses were found at many other temples administered by the TTD across the country.While these are serious gaps on the administrative front, the security-related lapses were also exposed in the theft case, exposing the oft-questioned fears that surveillance at other TTD-managed temples is poor when compared with the security set-up at Tirumala temple. der the scanner now. There is neither a documented check-list nor a written confirmation,” said a senior official of the TTD’s vigilance and security wing.It was also found that the ‘Sada Samarpana’ register, which documents the jewels adorned to the presiding/processional deities on a daily basis, was also not maintained properly in the case of the Govindaraja Swamy temple from where the three golden crowns disappeared. Tirupati: Even as the probe into the jewellery theft episode at the TTD-run Govindaraja Swamy temple continues, questions are now being raised about the security of hoards of precious jewellery, worth crores of rupees, in numerous other temples across the country, which too are managed by the world’s richest temple body.While the TTD top brass has all along painted a rosy picture about the security of jewellery in its possession, a deeper look into the existing security set-up, managed by the TTD’s own internal vigilance and security wing, presents a sorry picture..