A Jain temple in Vadodara’s Karjan taluka was robbed by miscreants on the night of September 27 who stole items worth ₹4.85 lakh including the eyes of the deity.

Parimal Shah, a resident of Manjalpur area of Vadodara and one of the trustees at the Shatrunjay Yugadidev Divya Vasantdham Jain temple in Dethan, filed a complaint at Karjan police station.

On the morning of September 28, the temple manager, Ajay, informed Shah about the robbery.

The thieves broke the main gate lock and stole the eyes and tilaks from the idols of the gods, as well as cash from the donation box.

Shah also informed fellow trustees Gautam Shah and Pankaj Shah about the theft, and the three of them went to the temple in Dethan village afterwards.

They found the main gate of the temple broken, and gold-bordered eyes and diamond-studded tilaks from the idols of Mulnayak Lord Adishwar, Munisuvrata, Lodhan Parshwanath, Mahavir Swami, Simandhar Swami, Shankheshwar Parshwanath, Shantinathji, Pundarik Swami, and Gautam Swami were stolen.

The stolen items include ₹4.20 lakh of gold jewellery offered to the deity idols, and an additional ₹65,000 in cash was stolen from the donation box, making a total theft of ₹4.85 lakh.

Following the incident, a district police team rushed to the temple and initiated the probe.

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