The cellphone has been taken as a temple providing (Representational)
Chennai:
A person who dropped an iPhone unintentionally into the hundial or the choices field at a Tamil Nadu temple could not get his cellphone again.
The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments division politely declined his request, saying it has now turn into temple property.
An official stated that underneath the Installation, Safeguarding and Accounting of Hundial Rules, 1975, all choices made into the hundials can’t be returned to the proprietor at any level, as they belonged to the temple, information company PTI reported.
The cellphone has been taken as an providing, the temple authorities stated, including the iPhone proprietor can solely retrieve the info.
Dinesh, who dropped the cellphone unintentionally, approached the officers of the Sri Kandaswamy temple in Chengalpattu district’s Thiruporur, and requested for the iPhone. The temple administration nonetheless declined his request.
PK Sekar Babu, the Minister of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, stated, “Anything that’s deposited into the providing field, even when it’s an arbitrary motion, goes into God’s account.”
“As per the practices and custom on the temples, any providing made into the hundial instantly goes into the account of the deity of that temple. Rules don’t allow the administration to return the choices again to the devotees,” Mr Babu informed reporters.
He stated he would, nonetheless, talk about with the division officers to see if there was any chance to compensate the devotee.
The minister stated this after inspecting the development of the Arulmigu Mariamman temple in Madhavaram, and the renovation of a temple tank belonging to the Arulmigu Kailasanathar temple in Venugopal Nagar.
iPhone unintentionally fell into the temple’s hundi..
The temple administration refused to return it the proprietor, saying it belonged to the temple.pic.twitter.com/4VgfcRk0Ib
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This incident is just not the primary such one within the state.
A devotee, S Sangeetha from Alappuzha in Kerala, unintentionally dropped her 1.75 sovereign gold chain into the hundial of the Sri Dhandayuthapani Swamy temple in Palani in May 2023. It fell into the hundial when she eliminated the tulasi garland round her neck to make an providing.
Considering her monetary background and after confirming via CCTV footage that the chain had fallen by chance, the chairman of the temple board of trustees purchased a brand new gold chain of the identical worth at his private expense and gave it to her.