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In a bid to find possible irregularities during the gold jalhari installation at Pashupatinath temple, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority weighed a total of 107.46 kilograms of gold used at the sacred linga.
Two years after a public complaint was lodged at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) that less amount of gold had been used than was decided earlier while making a jalahari (special ornament) for the Pashupatinath Temple, the anti-corruption watchdog entered the sacred temple on Sunday to ascertain the truth.
The jalari, usually made of silver, was replaced with gold under the instruction of the then-PM Oli, a Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) source told The Indian Express.
In the wake of the row over possible irregularities in the use of 108-kilogram gold for the jalhari at the sacred Shiva Linga inside the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, a team of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has started weighing the gold inside the vicinity of Pashupatinath temple starting late this evening.