A servitor of the Shree Jagannath Temple here has lodged a written complaint with the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Chief Administrator demanding an investigation into the incident of a woman, said to be wife of a senior IAS officer, and her son entering the Bhitarakatha within the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine on Tuesday night.
In his complaint, Dwarapala Pratihari servitor Raghunath Gochhikar alleged that though the woman and her son were stopped from reaching the Bhitarakatha by the servitors at around 9.45 pm on Tuesday, they did not listen to them and went inside.
Members of the Sri Jagannath Sena staged a demonstration in front of the temple on Thursday demanding arrest of the woman-son duo for getting close to the Ratnasinhasan despite prohibition imposed due to the ongoing Jagamohan repair work.
Besides, the Sri Jagannath Sena members lodged a complaint at the Shreeimandir police station against the woman and her son. Sources said the woman has been identified as wife of Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Rajesh Verma.
Notably, outsiders are not allowed to enter the inner sanctum sanctorum of the temple due to the Jagamohan repair work and can pay obeisance to the deities near the Jay Bijaya Dwar only. During the recent BJP national executive meeting, though many VVIPs like Union Minister of Water Resources Uma Bharti and Chief Ministers of various States visited the temple, they did not enter the Bhitarakatha.