KOCHI: Shocking discovery that the gold coronet weighing half a kilo from the Poornathrayeesa Temple is a fake. The Cochin Devaswom Board did not move a finger even after detecting the fraud 17 years ago.

Poornathrayesa is the main deity of worship of the Cochin royal family. It is reported that a large part of the valuables, including gems and diamonds, that were there when the royal family handed over the temple to the Devaswom Board have been lost.

The coronet is part of the four-kilogram gold kolam used for the Utram Ezhunnallippu. The then Tripunithura Devaswom Assistant Commissioner had reported that the coronet was noted as 496 grams of gold in the old register, which records the value of valuables, and that the present one is understood to be a fake.

A letter was sent from the T

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