CIAA team going to Pashupatinath temple to check golden Jalahari

KATHMANDU, June 25: A team of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority is going to the Pashupatinath temple at 3 pm today to check the golden Jalahari (a passage made at the bottom of a Linga, for the water poured on it to flow out) kept in the Jyotirlinga of the Pashupatinath temple. The authority is investigating the matter after an irregularity was found when keeping the Jalahari.

A question was also raised about this in the parliament. According to a senior official of the commission, the team is heading to Pashupatinath temple to further investigate the complaint. The Commission's team will measure the Jalahari. 

Representatives of the Department of Mines and Geology, the Department of Quality and Metrology, and the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers Association will be involved in the Commission's team. The officer informed that they will test the quality, weight and other issues of the gold made for the Jalahari.

It is suspected that an 11 kg gold scam has taken place in the Jalahari and the office bearers of the Pashupati Area Development Fund are involved in it. On January 12, 2077, the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, along with his wife Radhika Shakya and his aides, reached the Pashupatinath temple and performed the 'Sankalpa Puja' and announced that the Jalahari would be installed at a cost of around 1 billion rupees. According to the announcement, he said that the government would give 300 million rupees. Soon after, the Pashupati Area Development Fund decided to add Rs 500 million to the amount given by the government and install the Jalahari of 108 kg of gold.