Miscreants set fire to old chariot wheels at Kanipakam temple in Andhra’s Chittoor
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Miscreants set fire to the old chariot wheels at the Kanipakam temple in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district. Locals have expressed displeasure over the incident.
Miscreants in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district set fire to the old chariot wheels at the ancient Kanipakam temple on Thursday, January 27.
The incident caused a flutter among locals, who expressed displeasure over the incident.
Sri Varasidhi Vinayaka Swamy Temple at Kanipakam is an 11th-century Lord Ganapathy temple in Andhra Pradesh.
The old chariot's wheels were kept with other scrap materials about half-a-kilometer away from the temple. It was found burnt.
Temple security personnel examined CCTV cameras in the vicinity of the temple to identify the miscreants.
Chittoor Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) said that they have not received any complaints from the temple authorities so far.
The temple executive officer (EO), in a statement, said that all the belongings related to the temple chariots are stored in the sheds carefully and taken care of.
The matter pertains to a petition filed by one Nikhil Kumar Punia, who was born into an upper-caste Hindu family but supposedly converted to Buddhism later. He, along with another General Category candidate, has sought minority reservation benefits for admission to a Buddhist medical college on grounds of their purported conversion.
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