Temple priest with part of desecrated idol (India Today) A 400-year-old idol of Lord Ram was beheaded by unidentified individuals at the Sita Lakshmana Kodandarama temple in Andhra Pradesh's Ramatheertham, Deccan Herald has reported. As per the report, priests on Tuesday morning (29 December) found that the doors of the ancient temples were broken into and the Lord Ram idol in the sanctum sanctorum was desecrated. The severed portion of the idol was subsequently found inside the temple pond a day later. "At a time when the construction of Ram Mandir is going on at Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, the idol of Lord Ram is destroyed in our state. Separating the head of the idol cannot be an act of an insane person. It is an act of some religious maniacs", Janasena Party chief Pawan Kalyan has been quoted as saying.