Setback for TTD chairman

The ambitious  project of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (Ttd )chairman Adikesavulu Naidu  to cover up the entire Central Tirumala temple with gold, received rude  shock on Wednesday  when  the Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the Ttd  to stop the gold plating work with immediate effect.

The High Court  turned down  many PILs to halt the gold  plating project for want of  valid  reasons. On Wednesday  the Court   could not ignore the PIL  filed by  litigant Prakash Rao  who invoked the archeology act claiming  that the gold plating damages the centuries old writings and images on the walls of the holy temple.

The  time  given by the court for the Ttd to respond  was  four weeks.