Temple Robbery

Two employees of a Ghaziabad-based chartered accountant were robbed of Rs 50 lakh at gunpoint near Akshardham Temple in east Delhi, police said on Wednesday.

In an unusual robbery attempt, two men arrived on a horse to steal a temple donation box in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur, only to be chased away by the residents after dogs started barking.

A crown atop the god's idol in a temple was stolen in the early hours of Saturday in the Vasant Kunj area of the national capital, Delhi Police said on Saturday.

A gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple, saying they had been haunted by nightmares ever since the crime, according to police.

An estimated Rs 1.20 million was looted from the coffers of the famed Vajreshwari temple near Virar, around 75 km north of Mumbai, police said on Friday.

Arunima Sinha, the first amputee to scale Mount Everest and a former national-level volleyball player, said she was not allowed to enter one of the key shrines in Ujjain and was "mocked" about her disability. The athlete - whose leg was amputated after she was pushed out of a running train while resisting a robbery attempt six years ago -- broke do...

A gang of seven people took off with one million peso (about $21,000) worth of donations from the Philippines' Khalsa Diwan Indian Sikh Temple located in Manila in Paco district, a media report said today.

About Rs 20 lakhs, including a box containing gold pendants, kept in the strongroom of the famous Srikurumba Bhagavathy temple at nearby Kodungallor in Kerala, was found missing this morning.

A man convicted of killing nine people, including six monks, during a robbery at a Buddhist temple to which his mother and brother belonged was sentenced on Friday to 249 years in prison.

Gold and silver jewellery worth around Rs 15 lakh were allegedly stolen from the 17th century Patneshwar Dham Temple at Dhana village near Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.

A popular Jain temple in the old city of the Karnataka capital was burgled early on Sunday by unidentified thieves, who decamped with Rs 5 lakh in cash and gold ornaments valued at Rs 16 lakh, a police official said.

Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has said the state government would provide temple trusts license for possessing weapons. This announcement comes in the wake of theft of an idol from Dive Agar. "Government provides security to some important temples. Some of these are under threat from terrorists and dacoits," Patil said on Thursday.

An attempt by four armed dacoits to loot a temple in Sahibabad near Ghaziabad in the wee hours on Wednesday was foiled by devotees, police said.According to police, the dacoits attempted to steal the idols of gods and their ornaments at the temple on Wednesday morning around 5 am.However, the devotees who arrived for the early morning prayers pelte...

Two employees of a Ghaziabad-based chartered accountant were robbed of Rs 50 lakh at gunpoint near Akshardham Temple in east Delhi, police said on Wednesday.

In an unusual robbery attempt, two men arrived on a horse to steal a temple donation box in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur, only to be chased away by the residents after dogs started barking.

A crown atop the god's idol in a temple was stolen in the early hours of Saturday in the Vasant Kunj area of the national capital, Delhi Police said on Saturday.

A gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple, saying they had been haunted by nightmares ever since the crime, according to police.

An estimated Rs 1.20 million was looted from the coffers of the famed Vajreshwari temple near Virar, around 75 km north of Mumbai, police said on Friday.

Arunima Sinha, the first amputee to scale Mount Everest and a former national-level volleyball player, said she was not allowed to enter one of the key shrines in Ujjain and was "mocked" about her disability. The athlete - whose leg was amputated after she was pushed out of a running train while resisting a robbery attempt six years ago -- broke do...

A gang of seven people took off with one million peso (about $21,000) worth of donations from the Philippines' Khalsa Diwan Indian Sikh Temple located in Manila in Paco district, a media report said today.

About Rs 20 lakhs, including a box containing gold pendants, kept in the strongroom of the famous Srikurumba Bhagavathy temple at nearby Kodungallor in Kerala, was found missing this morning.

A man convicted of killing nine people, including six monks, during a robbery at a Buddhist temple to which his mother and brother belonged was sentenced on Friday to 249 years in prison.

Gold and silver jewellery worth around Rs 15 lakh were allegedly stolen from the 17th century Patneshwar Dham Temple at Dhana village near Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.

A popular Jain temple in the old city of the Karnataka capital was burgled early on Sunday by unidentified thieves, who decamped with Rs 5 lakh in cash and gold ornaments valued at Rs 16 lakh, a police official said.

Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has said the state government would provide temple trusts license for possessing weapons. This announcement comes in the wake of theft of an idol from Dive Agar. "Government provides security to some important temples. Some of these are under threat from terrorists and dacoits," Patil said on Thursday.

An attempt by four armed dacoits to loot a temple in Sahibabad near Ghaziabad in the wee hours on Wednesday was foiled by devotees, police said.According to police, the dacoits attempted to steal the idols of gods and their ornaments at the temple on Wednesday morning around 5 am.However, the devotees who arrived for the early morning prayers pelte...