Thiruvananthapuram: In a new scandal involving the Sabarimala shrine, one of its priests, Kantararu Mohanaru, was on Monday stripped of his status and powers after police found he had lodged a false complaint about being attacked and forcibly photographed with a woman in Kochi.
Kerala home minister, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Tuesday asked the state intelligence to provide all details of the controversial case involving the Sabarimala thantri (priest).
The additional director general of police in charge intelligence has been asked to examine the complaints lodged by the thantri with the police and the invesigations into them, Balakrishnan said at a press meet.
According to sources at the Sabarimala shrine, the police had said that the thantri used to visit the woman in question frequently.
Recently, Sabarimala was in the throes of a controversy when Kannada actress Jayamala had claimed that years ago she had entered the temple's sanctum sanctorum - which is barred to women aged between 10 and 50.
Balakrishnan said the government had decided to order a probe by the Crime Branch into the controversy triggered by Jayamala's claim.
The decision to go in for this probe was made on the basis of a request from the Devaswom minister, who had forwarded the Travancore Devaswom Board's resolution in this regard.
All issues thrown up by the Jayamala episode will be covered by this probe.
He said the government did not wish to turn a major pilgrimage centre like Sabarimala into the focus of a controversy.
"It is also keen to ensure that debates over Sabarimala will not hurt the sentiments of the devotees," he said.
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