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SIT Misses Deadline, Murari Babu Released on Statutory Bail in Temple Gold Theft
Former TDB official Murari Babu has been granted statutory bail in the Sabarimala temple gold theft case. The Kollam Vigilance Court granted him bail because the Special Investigation Team (SIT) failed to file a charge sheet even after 90 days of his arrest. Babu is accused of stealing gold from the Dwarapalak idols and the doors of the main sanctum sanctorum. He had been suspended from service.
A court has allowed the bail petition of Murari Babu, a former administrative official of the TDB, in the theft case at the famous Sabarimala temple in Kerala State, India. Judge Mohit C.S., presiding over the Kollam court vigilance court in Kerala State in India, allowed the bail petition of Murari Babu on the ground that 90 days had elapsed from the time he was arrested in the case of theft from the famous Sabarimala temple in Kerala State in India, while the investigating
Babu is the second accused in the case of theft of gold from the Dwarapalaka idols and the sixth accused in the case of theft of gold from the doors of the sanctum sanctorum. He would be out of prison by Friday evening. He would be the first to be released from prison in this case.
He was arrested in October last year on charges of conspiracy related to the gold theft. At the time of his arrest, Babu was serving as the Deputy Devaswom Commissioner in Haripad and was suspended from service when the gold theft came to light last year.
