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Offering of pots containing coins mistaken as bombs at temple

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Press Trust of India Tirupati
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 5:33 AM IST

However, police, bomb disposal squad and security personnel employed by the body which runs the temple, examined the pots and found it full of Rs one and Rs two coins, sources told PTI.

The temple staff, who noticed the pots with height 20 inches and 15 inches diameter and capped with a red cloth at around midnight on Sunday, suspected it to contain bombs, temple sources said.

The pots were found at the shrine's 'Mahadwaram' (main entrance), and were believed to have been brought by unidentified devotees to be offered to the presiding deity, they said.

The devotees might have unknowingly abandoned the containers at the main entrance before entering the sanctum sanctorum, the sources said.

Today, the pots were sent to the 'Parakamani' (a place where coins dropped by devotees in the temple hundi are counted), they said.

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams manages the shrine.

  

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First Published: Oct 29 2012 | 4:55 PM IST

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