The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the disappearance of gold from the Sabarimala temple has arrested former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) administrative officer B Murari Babu, officials said on Thursday, accoridng to a report by PTI.

Sources told PTI that Babu, who had been suspended from service following the controversy, was taken into custody from his residence in Changanassery on Wednesday night and later shifted to the Crime Branch office in Thiruvananthapuram for questioning.

SIT officials said the arrest was formally recorded at around 10 am on Thursday in the presence of Babu’s relatives, who were later allowed to meet him.

He is expected to be produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Pathanamthitta later in the evening. The investigating team is

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