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Mathura, 2018.04.07 (VT): Mahant Ballabhdas Maharaj has filed a police report saying that five bronze statues and other items were taken from Radhamohan Temple in Chaumunha on Thursday night.
The thieves broke into the temple while the pujaris were sleeping in the building. The pujaris heard the noise and chased them away.
The thieves got away with Radha-Krishna’s silver crowns, Matarani’s parasol, cash and sacks of wheat. The thieves were attempting to take a motorbike when Ballabhdas Maharaj heard sounds and alerted the other pujaris who chased them away.
Ballabhdas Maharaj told police that five bronze statues were taken from the temple, but they were found in the field 100 metres from the temple.
Maharaj had earlier filed a complaint about local people who were hanging around the temple. It is suspected that the same youths are responsible for the break-in.
Devotees are angry at the attack on Thakurji’s property.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. There have been several cases of ancient deities being stolen and pickpockets seem to have no shame in working in temples. Even Braj’s Laxmi Devi, at Belvan is a pratibhu deity because the original was stolen.
The thieves got away with temple property but it seems that the deities refused be taken far from the temple.
In 2013, another set of deities were returned Their temple by Mathura Police after they were located in a nearby village. Sanket Bihari Lal, of Sanket Van Dham and the deities were returned to Their temple in Nand Gaon a year after they had been taken.
The pujari at Laxmi Devi temple in Belvan said that they have an idea of the whereabouts of the deity, stolen many years ago, and that ruin has come upon the family who live in the house where the stolen Laxmi Devi is kept.
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