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The petitioner is serving as Additional Commissioner in Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department. On 23.07.2018, the Idol wing, CBCID received a written complaint from Rangarajan @ Narasimhan alleging that by way of dishonest means and criminal breach of trust, idol at Shri Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore, Chennai, stolen. The petitioner herein was the Deputy Commissioner/Executive Officer of the said temple at the relevant point of missing/theft of idol.

2. The complainant Rangarajan Narasimhan claiming himself as an active researcher of Temples in Tamil Nadu alleges that in August 2017, he came to know the idol of Lord “Parvathi” in the form of peacock at Shri Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore, has been stolen by replacing the original one with the duplicate one, on the day before Fk;ghgpN\fk; that was performed in the year 2004. He also alleged that the records are been erased by insiders of the Temple. The “Parvathi” idol is more than 1400 years old and a rarest of rare antique found nowhere else in the State of Tamil Nadu. The petitioner along with one Venu Srinivasan, Chairman of Renovation Committee and Mr.Muthiah, Chief Sthapathi, are the persons directly in