a team of HR&CE department officials went to the Sripuranthan temple intending to shift the idols to an icon centre. ‘But the villages restrained their process and promised to safeguard the idols by providing a new grille gate. After the grille gate was ready, on 18.08.2008, HR&CE officers, local police and the villagers tried to open the lock and found the lock was broken. Idols were stolen away.’5 This means that when the officials visited the temple in June 2008 they didn’t even open the temple to see if everything was all right. Instead a grill door was commissioned to protect the
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