A view of the Lord Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha. File
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The Orissa Excessive Courtroom has adjourned the listening to for one more two weeks on a PIL looking for tabling of Justice Raghubir Das Fee of Enquiry report on the lacking keys of Puri Jagannath Temple ‘Ratna Bhandar’ within the State Meeting.

A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh on March 15 adjourned the listening to because the State authorities sought two weeks extra time to file an affidavit in response to the PIL, which was filed by a Puri-based resident within the yr 2023.

Dilip Kumar Baral had approached the Excessive Courtroom looking for the courtroom’s intervention because the State authorities had “failed” in making the enquiry fee report public.

The Justice Raghubir Das Fee of Enquiry was set by the State authorities on June 6, 2018, to inquire into the circumstances by which the keys of Lord Jagannath’s treasury known as ‘Ratna Bhandar‘ at Puri temple went lacking.

Justice Das submitted his report back to the Odisha authorities on November 29, 2018, however the State authorities has not tabled the report on the ground of the State Meeting.

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The State authorities reportedly spent round ₹23 lakh for the Fee of Enquiry, Mr. Baral talked about in his petition stating that the folks of the State are stored at midnight in regards to the findings of the Fee of Enquiry report.

In its preliminary listening to, the Excessive Courtroom in April final yr had requested the State authorities to file its counter in an affidavit inside two months in regards to the present standing of the enquiry report.