Kerala HC extends time for VACB to finish probe in Sabarimala ghee sale rip-off| India Information
Kochi, The Kerala Excessive Court docket has given the vigilance bureau 30 days extra to conclude its probe into the alleged misappropriation of funds by TDB staff in relation to the sale of ‘Adiya Sishtam Ghee’ a sacred providing bought to devotees on the Lord Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala.
A bench of justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and Ok V Jayakumar granted the extra time after the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau knowledgeable it that 9 extra Travancore Devaswom Board employees are suspected of being concerned within the rip-off and their roles must investigated.
The Bureau had initially registered an FIR towards 33 folks in reference to the alleged misappropriation of funds from sale of the ‘ghee’.
The VACB additionally instructed the court docket that careless and improper upkeep of data by the TDB has considerably hampered the progress of the investigation, making it troublesome to finish the identical inside the stipulated time.
Paying attention to the submissions by the probe company, the court docket mentioned it was glad that the request for extra time was justified.
“Accordingly, an additional interval of 30 days is granted to conclude the investigation. We direct the Bureau to hunt permission of this court docket previous to submitting the ultimate report,” the bench mentioned.
It additionally directed the VACB to conduct a complete and exhaustive probe, clearly figuring out and fixing the position of every particular person concerned, and to proceed in accordance with the regulation in order that applicable motion could also be taken at once.
The court docket had in January directed the VACB to register a case and represent a staff of “upright and competent officers” to analyze it.
The orders got here in a petition initiated by the court docket by itself following a report by the TDB’s Chief Vigilance and Safety Officer mentioning that the sale proceeds of 16,628 packets of ghee bought on the shrine haven’t been remitted to the Devaswom account.
Apart from that, the report additionally revealed that there was a scarcity of twenty-two,565 packets of ghee in the course of the interval from December 27, 2025 to January 2, 2026, resulting in a lack of income of ₹22,65,500 to the Devaswom.
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