TIRUPATI: Tension prevailed across the temple town of Kanipakam in Chittoor district after unidentified persons set fire to old chariot wheels of ancient Varasiddhi Vinayaka Swamy Temple during early hours of Thursday. The wheels, along with other scrap materials, were later shifted to an open place near Goshala, about half-a-kilometre from the temple. When Deccan Chronicle contacted assistant commissioner and …
Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district police on Wednesday arrested a gang of eight inter-state treasure hunters for desecrating a ‘Nandi’ idol outside an Abhaya Anjaneya temple near Abhayamangalam. With these arrests the police stopped a major arson planned across districts including in temples of Kanipakam, SR Puram, Tirupati, Kurnool, Mahanandi, Patthikonda and Guntur. “The Chittoor wing of Andhra Pradesh police has …
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