A person who by chance dropped his iPhone right into a hundial, or choices field, at a Tamil Nadu temple might not be capable of reclaim it.
The Tamil Nadu Hindu Non secular and Charitable Endowments division has declined his request, stating that the cellphone is now thought-about temple property.
Citing the Set up, Safeguarding, and Accounting of Hundial Guidelines, 1975, an official defined that something deposited right into a hundial is deemed a donation and can’t be returned to the proprietor. “All choices made into the hundials belong to the temple and can’t be retrieved,” the official informed information company PTI.
Temple authorities have confirmed that the iPhone dropped into the hundial has been handled as an providing, permitting solely the retrieval of its information.
Dinesh, the proprietor of the cellphone, sought help from officers on the Sri Kandaswamy Temple in Thiruporur, situated in Chengalpattu district, to reclaim his system. Nonetheless, his request was denied by the temple administration.
PK Sekar Babu, Minister of the Hindu Non secular and Charitable Endowments Division, clarified the choice, stating, “Something deposited into the providing field, even when performed unintentionally, turns into a part of God’s account.”
“As per the practices and custom on the temples, any providing made into the hundial immediately goes into the account of the deity of that temple. Guidelines don’t allow the administration to return the choices again to the devotees,” Babu defined to reporters.
He added that he would seek the advice of with division officers to discover whether or not any type of compensation might be offered to the devotee.
The minister made these remarks whereas inspecting the development of the Arulmigu Mariamman temple in Madhavaram and overseeing the renovation of a temple tank related to the Arulmigu Kailasanathar temple in Venugopal Nagar.
This isn’t the primary time such an incident has occurred within the state.
In Could 2023, a devotee named S. Sangeetha from Alappuzha, Kerala, by chance dropped her 1.75-sovereign gold chain into the hundial on the Sri Dhandayuthapani Swamy temple in Palani. The chain slipped into the providing field whereas she was eradicating a tulasi garland from round her neck to make an providing.
Taking into consideration her monetary state of affairs and verifying by CCTV footage that the incident was unintentional, the chairman of the temple board of trustees personally bought a brand new gold chain of equal worth and handed it to her.
