India, Oct. 7 -- To uncover the alleged discrepancies in the weight and value of the gold-clad plates covering the 'dwarapalaka' idols at the Sabarimala temple, the Kerala high court on Monday ordered the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the leadership of ADGP H Venkatesh.

The order by the division bench of Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and KV Jayakumar came in the suo motu case taken up based on the finding that the purported gold-clad copper sheets enveloping the 'dwarapalaka' idols were handed out by the Devaswom authorities to a priest-turned-businessman recently for repairs in Chennai without the permission of either the Special Commissioner (Sabarimala) or the high court.

It was also found in the report su...