Wednesday, September 14, 2011: The Travancore Royal family on
Tuesday said that ‘vault B’ of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple should
not be opened. The Royal family will let the Supreme Court know its
stand on the issue.
But they would definitely abide by the Supreme Court order if it
orders for opening the vault-B. Meanwhile the seven-member panel
appointed by the Supreme Court to take an inventory of the
Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure, has insisted that the vault ‘B’ of the
temple must be opened.
In a security interim report submitted before the Apex Court the
panel headed by Administrator of the National Museum C.V. Ananda Bose
informed that the vault ‘B’ must be opened for assessing the condition
of the chamber and for security of the valuables inside it.
The committee 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.
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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