SIT is interrogating arrested Murari at the Crime Branch office in Thiruvananthapuram.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday arrested former Sabarmala temple official B. Murari Babu from his residence in Changanassery in connection with the missing gold from the temple. The SIT stated on Thursday that Babu is being questioned at the Crime Branch office in Thiruvananthapuram.

Officials said the SIT will produce Babu before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Pathanamthitta and seek custody. Babu is accused in two cases related to gold missing from the gold plates on the temple’s guardian statues and the frames of the sanctum doors.

In this case, the Trivandrum Devaswom Board (TDB) vigilance team had submitted a report after a preliminary investigation, recommending a

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