Security cordon was breached during First Couple's visit to Puri temple: Police

The Odisha Police today said "some people" had breached the security cordon during President Ram Nath Kovind's visit to the Puri Jagannath Temple with his wife on March 18.

The statement by Puri Superintendent of Police Sarthak Sarangi comes a day after the state government denied receipt of any letter from the Rashtrapati Bhavan regarding the alleged misconduct of servitors in the 12th century shrine.

A section of the media had reported that the Rashtrapati Bhavan wrote to the temple administration, alleging inappropriate behaviour by servitors outside the sanctum sanctorum of the temple
Binayak Dasmohapatra, the assistant secretary of another servitors' body, said, "If such an incident had taken place, the police should have arrested the servitors immediately."