The duplicate keys of Puri Jagannath temple’s treasury have been found, promoting Puri collector Aravind Agarwal to say the recovery was a miracle of the Lord.
On April 4 the Puri district administration came to know that the keys of the temple treasury’s inner chambers were missing, stumbled upon a brown sealed envelope containing the duplicate keys on Thursday.
“The envelope was found in the locker of the district record room after five days of search, though the temple records sais the keys had been kept in district treasury,” Agrawal said.
The 2007-batch Indian Administrative Sevice said,”It is a miracle. All of us engaged in the search felt the presence of the Lord yesterday. Having failed to get the keys despite a frantic search, I had completely surrendered before the Lord seeking his blessings.”
“All these people have been misleading the public. One day the collector says keys are missing and now he says that duplicate keys are found. Where is the original key? How did the key get into the record room?” Odisha BJP spokesman Pitambar Acharya attack on the Biju Janta Dal or BJD government.
Niranjan Patnaik Odisha Congress chief alleged the state government was not serious about looking after the affairs of the 12th-century shrine.
“I thank Lord Jagannath for the recovery of the keys. I am working with all dedication and I am also open to any inquiry. The district administration will hand over the keys to the SJTA and place details about the matter before the judicial commission, set up by the chief minister on June 4,” the IAS officer said.
Headed by retired Orissa High Court judge Justice Raghubir Dash, the commission will look into the sequence of events before the keys of the inner chamber of Ratna Bhandar went missing.