BHUBANESWAR: Even because the Supreme Court on Friday issued a slew of directions while hearing lawsuits of mismanagement of budget on the Lord Jagannath temple in Puri, Odisha governor Ganeshi Lal expressed worry over the missing keys of the inner chamber of its Ratna Bhandar which have been ultimate opened way back in 1985. “The Governor is raring to understand the info in the back of the missing keys,” mentioned a commentary from the Raj Bhavan.
The inner chamber of the 12th century temple’s Ratna Bhandar is supposed to include a huge amount of gold and silver adorns. The district collector of Puri is the custodian of the keys and he discovered in April that they had been missing. This precipitated the Naveen Patnaik government on June 4 to set up a fee, headed by way of retired justice of Orissa HC Raghubir Das, to probe the case and put up a file inside of 3 months. But that seems to have added extra suspicion to the talk which has captivated the state.
The inner chamber of Ratna Bhandar is believed to include more than 128 kg of gold adorns and over 200 kg of silver utensils. While the outer chamber is opened steadily to fetch adorns for the deities right through the once a year Rath Yatra and other important gala's, temple data counsel the inner chamber used to be ultimate opened in 1985.
The 3 keys to the outer chamber are in custody of the Puri ‘king’ (whose family for generations sorted the temple), the temple administration and Bhandar Mekap, a clergyman who looks after the treasury.
It used to be in April that the disappearance of the keys to the inner chamber came to gentle after the Puri district administration mentioned it could not locate them amid a debate whether the room wanted restore after cracks had been noticed within the structure.
“We do not know the place the keys to the inner Ratna Bhandar are. The keys to the outer chamber are protected,” Puri district collector Aravind Agarwal mentioned, including “We tried to locate the keys within the district treasury but could not to find them.”
On Thursday, Puri ‘king’ Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb expressed surprise on the approach many of us, together with temple servitors and senior BJD leader Damodar Rout, have raised questions about his role vis-a-vis the protected stay of the inner Ratna Bhandar keys.
The Jagannath Temple Act makes it obligatory to check the contents of the Ratna Bhandar every 3 years.
The inner chamber of the 12th century temple’s Ratna Bhandar is supposed to include a huge amount of gold and silver adorns. The district collector of Puri is the custodian of the keys and he discovered in April that they had been missing. This precipitated the Naveen Patnaik government on June 4 to set up a fee, headed by way of retired justice of Orissa HC Raghubir Das, to probe the case and put up a file inside of 3 months. But that seems to have added extra suspicion to the talk which has captivated the state.
The inner chamber of Ratna Bhandar is believed to include more than 128 kg of gold adorns and over 200 kg of silver utensils. While the outer chamber is opened steadily to fetch adorns for the deities right through the once a year Rath Yatra and other important gala's, temple data counsel the inner chamber used to be ultimate opened in 1985.
The 3 keys to the outer chamber are in custody of the Puri ‘king’ (whose family for generations sorted the temple), the temple administration and Bhandar Mekap, a clergyman who looks after the treasury.
It used to be in April that the disappearance of the keys to the inner chamber came to gentle after the Puri district administration mentioned it could not locate them amid a debate whether the room wanted restore after cracks had been noticed within the structure.
“We do not know the place the keys to the inner Ratna Bhandar are. The keys to the outer chamber are protected,” Puri district collector Aravind Agarwal mentioned, including “We tried to locate the keys within the district treasury but could not to find them.”
On Thursday, Puri ‘king’ Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb expressed surprise on the approach many of us, together with temple servitors and senior BJD leader Damodar Rout, have raised questions about his role vis-a-vis the protected stay of the inner Ratna Bhandar keys.
The Jagannath Temple Act makes it obligatory to check the contents of the Ratna Bhandar every 3 years.
Mystery of Puri Temple's missing keys
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