Goa, Oct. 23 -- The former administrative officer of the Sabarimala temple, Murari Babu, was detained by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with the alleged misappropriation of gold plating from Lord Ayyappa's sacred shrine. Babu was taken into custody last night and brought to Thiruvananthapuram early Thursday morning.

He is expected to be questioned alongside Unnikrishnan Potti, another key individual entrusted with the temple's gold-plating work in 2019, who is already under arrest.

Investigators allege that Babu manipulated temple records by categorizing gold items as copper, effectively concealing the disappearance of valuable material from the temple's inventory.

The SIT has also seized the Travancore Devaswom Boa...