Over 45 silver ingots recovered from Emar Mutt in Puri

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: As many as 45 silver ingots weighing about 35 kg every have been recovered from Emar Mutt, one of many oldest mutts in Puri belonging to the Ramanuj sect, on Saturday.

Official sources mentioned the restoration might be in contrast with the stock made again in 2010.

The comparability will assist in ascertaining whether or not these are new findings or they already existed within the stock made about 11 years again, they mentioned.

A variety of valuables and antiques have been additionally recovered from the traditional mutt. They embody a silver tree and silver flowers, about 16 vintage swords, and a bronze cow sculpture.

In 2011, a deliberate loot from the mutt had come to mild when two masons concerned in its renovation work have been caught by Dhenkanal Police whereas they have been attempting to get rid of two silver ingots weighing over 30 kg every.

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During the interrogation of the duo, Dhenkanal police had traced the hyperlinks to the Emar Mutt. Their Puri counterparts had later taken over the case and had seized silver ingots totaling 522 items weighing over 18 tonnes. The treasure was valued at over Rs 90 crore.

Former Emar Mutt Mahant Rajgopal Das had claimed the possession and filed a case within the High Court searching for route to the police at hand over the property to the mutt.

However, the police had arrested Das and 15 others on fees of conspiring and stealing the mutt property. The ingots have been then shifted from Emar Mutt to district armoury contained in the Police Reserve.

Later, the Commissioner of Endowments had constituted a belief to handle the affairs of the mutt.

As Das didn’t cooperate with the belief physique, the administration forcefully entered into the mutt by breaking open its doorways and he was stripped of all his powers.

A four-member belief physique headed by Narayan Ramanuj Das, who’s the mahant of Utter Parsva Mutt, had taken over the Emar Mutt on Friday, and the stock of all the property was made within the presence of a Justice of the Peace.