Friday, September 16, 2011: The Travancore Royal family today
informed the Supreme Court that the security at Sree Padmanabhaswamy
temple could be strengthened.
The security system instructed by the five-member expert committee
chaired by Director of the National Museum C.V. Ananda Bose for the
evaluation of temple assets was also acceptable.
The expert panel had earlier insisted on opening the temple vault-‘B’
for assessing the condition of the chamber and for security of the
valuables inside it.
The committee in its interim report also pointed out that they would
go ahead with the inventory process even though the “Devaprasnam” warned
against evaluation of the assets found in the temples.
Meanwhile the Travancore Royal family has they wouldn’t agree with
the expert panel’s decision to open the vault ‘B’. But they would
definitely abide by the Supreme Court order if it orders to open
vault-B.
Of the six vaults, five have been opened so far and their inventory
prepared by the panel. The face value of the gold and precious artifacts
recovered so far has been unofficially put at Rs 1 lakh crore.
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