Dispute grows over temple's management
Compiled by MARTIN CARVALHO, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
CONTROVERSY is brewing between Malaysia Hindu Sangam and a temple in Kelana Jaya, with accusations of mismanagement and police reports lodged, Tamil Malar reported.
Sri Sakthi Easwari Temple's former committee chairman Selvam Paramasivam said he has filed a police report.
Selvam said MHS president T. Ganesan, when speaking at a function in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, had allegedly accused him and his committee of defrauding the temple of RM3mil.
This accusation, which was made in front of about 750 people from the community, is completely baseless and has damaged his reputation, added Selvam.
He and committee members filed a report at the Petaling Jaya police station over the accusation.
> Three people were killed in India when a sack of fireworks was set off in a freak accident during a temple festival, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The incident happened in Salem, Tamil Nadu, when a man was transporting a large stock of firecrackers by motorcycle.
He apparently lost control as he passed by a burning pile of rubbish and crashed into the flames.
The fire ignited the fireworks, resulting in the immediate deaths of three men and severely injuring a boy.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
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