Summary:
Tirupati: Security chinks at the Lord Venkateswara temple were exposed on Saturday morning when three Pune youths managed to open an emergency gate and enter the queue lines at Tirumala . Meanwhile, the security wing sleuths handed over the three — identified as Shubham, Samarath and Rishi— to the Tirumala police. A complaint has also been lodged against the trio for trespassing into TTD premises in an unauthorised manner. “All that they had to do was use a duplicate key with the help of which they easily opened the emergency gate and walked into the queue lines like any other normal devotee,” said a security official. However, they were spotted and taken into custody by the temple’s security officials at the pilgrim frisking point near Mahadwaram, after they failed to produce ‘Suprabatham darshan’ tickets..