Overview

• TDB Vigilance has summoned Unnikrishnan Potti for questioning on Saturday, days after recovering gilded plates and a pedestal from a relative’s home, and he now publicly denies wrongdoing.
• The Kerala High Court has ordered a confidential inventory under retired judge K. T. Sankaran and noted a roughly 4 kg discrepancy in the weight of the claddings after they were taken out for work in 2019.
• TDB president P. S. Prasanth says the Board will move the High Court for a comprehensive, court‑monitored investigation covering 1998 to 2025 and has acknowledged lapses by officials.
• Investigators are probing missing registers tied to earlier donations, an unexplained 39–40 day gap before the plates reached a Chennai workshop in 2019, and alleged violations of the temple manual barring external repairs and private intermediaries.
• Opposition leaders in the Congress‑led UDF and the BJP demand a CBI or higher‑agency probe, citing mistrust of the TDB Vigilance inquiry and raising questions about fundraising and the handling of sacred artefacts outside prescribed procedures.