KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an­oth­er at­tack on a Mandir fol­low­ing a re­port that some­one broke in­to the Craig­nish Shi­va Mandir in Princess Town, steal­ing a do­na­tion box and de­stroy­ing its sur­veil­lance sys­tem. Princes Town po­lice said some­one con­tact­ed the sta­tion on Tues­day evening and re­port­ed the theft.

When of­fi­cers went to the Mandir, off the Gopaul By­pass Road, they no­ticed a hole in the roof, but no one was there.
Fol­low­ing in­quiries, of­fi­cers not­ed that a box con­tain­ing $51 was miss­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the in­trud­er did not van­dalise the mandir. Vil­lagers said they heard an alarm on Sun­day.
Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Sanatan Dharam Ma­ha Sa­ba Vi­jay Ma­haraj be­lieves the break-in oc­curred be­tween Sun­day night and Mon­day morn­ing.

Ma­haraj said devo­tees went to the mandir and no­ticed ven­ti­la­tion blocks smashed on one of the walls.

They en­tered and re­alised the do­na­tion box was not there, and the sur­veil­lance sys­tem was de­stroyed. He said no des­e­cra­tion took place.
A devo­tee of the mandir said there were sev­er­al break-ins over the years.

Be­cause of that, they nev­er left any sig­nif­i­cant amount of cash there.

How­ev­er, the last in­ci­dent oc­curred eight years ago.

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