Man drops iPhone into hundi, EO refuses to give it back
Deccan ChronicleAn incident akin to that in Tamil movie 'Palayathamman' ccured at the Arulmigu Kandaswamy temple at Thiruporur near Chennai. At the Arulmigu Kandaswamy temple, a devotee inadvertently dropped an iPhone into the hundi. A devotee Dinesh, hailing from Vinayagapuram, was forced to leave his iPhone with the temple authorities as they refused to give it back to him as he had dropped it into the hundi and now, it belongs to the deity. Worried over the incident, Dinesh approached the temple authorities but they told him that once the offering is placed in the hundi, it is considered as the property of the deity and cannot be returned. Temple EO Kumaravel said the tradition of treating anything dropped in the hundi as belonging to the temple and deity would be followed and the phone would be remain in the temple custody.
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