iPhone dropped in temple hundial belongs to deity per HR&CE Act; owner seeks return, authorities decide fate.

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Contents dropped into temple hundials belong to the deity: HR&CE

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The temple authorities denied the devotees plea, saying once something is placed in the hundi, it "belongs to the deity".

News18 India

Mukesh Ambani

Devotee Accidentally Drops iPhone In Temple Box, Authorities Refuse To Return It: 'Belongs To The Deity Now'

A man who dropped an iPhone accidentally into the hundial or the offerings box at a Tamil Nadu temple may not get his phone back. The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department politely declined his request, saying it has now become temple property. An official said that under the Installation, Safeguarding and Accounting of Hundial Rules, 1975, all offerings made into the hundials cannot be returned to the owner at any poin…

NDTV

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Gautam Adani

New Delhi

Delhi

Man Accidentally Drops iPhone In Temple Box. Why He Won't Get It Back

Temple officials told Dinesh that items once placed in the hundi are considered the deity’s property.

Indian Express

Viveck Goenka

Devotee drops iPhone in hundi, temple refuses to return it: ‘Belongs to the deity now’

A devotee in Tamil Nadu realised that his iPhone inadvertently slipped into the hundial while he was making a donation at Arulmigu Kandaswamy temple.

India Today

Living Media

Man's iPhone falls into Tamil Nadu temple's donation box, declared 'deity's property'

Minister P. K. Shekhar Babu said that he will discuss with the officials of the department to find out if there is any possibility of compensating the devotee for the iPhone, and will take a decision accordingly.

मंत्री पी. के. शेखर बाबू ने कहा कि, वह विभाग के अधिकारियों से चर्चा करेंगे ताकि यह पता लगाया जा सके कि श्रद्धालु को iPhone का मुआवजा देने की कोई संभावना है या नहीं, और उसके अनुसार निर्णय लेंगे.

दानपात्र में गिरी थी सोने की चेन तो ट्रस्ट ने दूसरी बनवा कर दी... क्या iPhone का भी मिलेगा मुआवजा?

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The gold chain fell in the donor box, so the trust built another one... Will the iPhone also be compensated?

A devotee at the Sri Kandaswamy Temple in Thiruporur has found himself in a unique predicament after accidentally dropping his iPhone into the temple's hundial (offering box). Despite his requests for its return, the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable

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M. P. Veerendra Kumar

Kerala

Devotee loses iPhone in temple 'hundial', TN minister declares it God's property

In a bizarre incident that gives a vibe matching to Akshay Kumar's OMG movie, where tragedy became an 'act of God'. The matter reported from a temple in Tamil Nadu is rather weird as one devotee dropped his iPhone into the temple's hundial (hundi) and as he demanded it back, the temple authorities refused by saying, 'it now belongs to God.' The incident occurred in Sri Kandaswamy temple, Thiruporur.  'iPhone is now temple property!' The devotee …

India TV News

Rajat Sharma

Tamil Nadu: 'It now belongs to God', temple refuses to return devotee's iPhone dropped in ‘hundi’

A peculiar incident at the Arul-mugu Kandaswamy temple near Chennai has sparked widespread debate. A devotee accidentally dropped his iPhone into the temple's donation box, or hundi, and was told that the device now belonged to the deity.

The Munsif Daily

iPhone Accidentally Dropped into Temple Donation Box, Authorities Refuse to Return It, Offer Data Access

In a bizarre incident at a temple in Tamil Nadu, the authorities refused to return an iPhone to a devotee after it fell into the donation hundi. The incident occurred at the Arulmigu Kandaswamy temple, Thiruporur near Chennai. As the devotee explained that he dropped the iPhone inadvertently, the temple authorities claimed that the phone was the “property of the deity”. Dinesh, a devotee from Vinayagapuram, had to return home empty-handed on Fri…

Contents dropped into temple hundials belong to the deity: HR&CE

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