Temple comm seeks details of Rawal's arrest from Delhi police

Badri-Kedar Temple Committee today sought from Delhi police details of the alleged molestation case in which the chief priest (Rawal) of Badrinath temple Keshavan Namboodiri has been arrested.
"We have sought details related to the case from the Delhi police to help probe the matter by a panel constituted by the Badri-Kedar Mandir Samiti," its chief Ganesh Godiyal said.
The committee has already suspended the chief priest of the Himalayan shrine after he was arrested by Delhi police on alleged molestation charges.
The report of the panel constituted by the committee will be placed before the Committee board, he said.

Till the time he is cleared of the charges in a court of law, Nayab Rawal V C Ishwara Prasad will function as the chief priest of the temple, Godiyal said.
The chief priest was sent to 14 days of judicial custody by a Delhi court yesterday after he was arrested for allegedly confining and molesting a pregnant woman in a Delhi hotel.
Besides Namboodiri, police has also arrested one of his associates Vishnu Prasad from the spot on Monday.