Temple priest arrested for stealing ornaments offered by devotees

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July 24, 2016

Mangaluru, Jul 23: The Kukke Subrahmanya police arrested the priest of Shankhapala Temple in Yenekal in Sullia Taluk on the charge of stealing ornaments offered by the devotees.

preistThe jurisdictional court handed over the accused to the police custody on Saturday.

An official release gave the name of the accused as Murali Venkatesh, son of H. Subrahmanya Bhat, a native of Sullia Taluk, who was presently residing at the temple.

According to a complaint from temple in-charge administrator Monappa, the ornaments including 32 gold finger rings and one gold chain were found missing between February 2 and July 15 from the safe locker of the temple, which is also famous for Ullalthi Bachchanayaka Daiva.

After the complaint was lodged, the priest, along with his family, were absconding and a special police team secured him from Bengaluru, the release said.

The accused priest had pledged some of the valuables at neighbouring villages and had sold some others.

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Rajesh Sequira
 - 
Monday, 25 Jul 2016

Did the god not stop him

Aslam
 - 
Monday, 25 Jul 2016

Naren Kotian, Awaiting for your valuable comment!!!

ali
 - 
Sunday, 24 Jul 2016

stealing in their blood. They gets training from RSS in lieng and stealing.

Priest are good in earning money by fooling people.

whenever they get failure to fool people then start stealing ornaments from idols.
They knows that idols doesnt need ornaments.

Sameer
 - 
Sunday, 24 Jul 2016

Kallaru swami ellelluu kallaru....

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June 16,2020

Vijayapura, June 16: Even as a video of a man wearing a burqa who is being thrashed by locals is going viral on social media, netizens targeted Bharatiya Janata Party for their activist resorting to heinous acts. 

The man who was caught in burqa has been identified as Siddu Paragond, an activist of Snagh Parivar hailing from Sindgi town in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district. 

The bizarre incident took place in Sindgi on June 11 outside a bank.

“While people including women were standing in a queue outside the bank, the person in burqa was acting in a suspicious manner. The person was trying to get too close to women which was making them feel awkward,” local residents said.

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Kannadiga
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Tuesday, 16 Jun 2020

Finally mentally not fit 

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