Thiruvanthapuram,July 18 (TruthDive): The remains of the man who petitioned the Supreme Court for an inventory of Sri Padmanabha Swamy temple assets was cremated. Media persons were the only people who gathered to report the `event’ to immediate relatives and a priest of nearby temple.
The neighbours of the `agraharam’ (place where only Brahmins stay) where T P Sundarajan the 70- year old advocate and chronic bachelor lived stayed away from the funeral since they hated him for leading the cops and court officials to enter the temple to open the vaults.
Unanimously all of the residents including the youngsters felt that the sanctity of the temple was gone by the adamant stance of the advocate who had benefitted from the largesse of the Royal family.The body was cremated at Puthankotta where Brahmins are cremated at the place run by Brahmin association at Karmana in the city. This was where actor Srividya was cremated.
The nephew of Sunderajan who is also an advocate said that he would continue the fight of his uncle and that he died as a happy man of having achieved his goal. The neighbours feel that he invited the wrath of the deity even though he himself used to visit the temple at least five times. His food was the nivedyam (food offered to deity and then distributed to devotees).
He was living at Saranagathi, West Fort, near the ancient temple.Sundararajan had been running of high fever for the past two days, family sources said.He died at 12.45 am on Sunday. The cremation was held later in the day.Sundararajan,a bachelor, had come into spotlight after moving the Supreme Court that the wealth of the famed temple should be assessed.
Sundararajan belonged to the 1964 batch of IPS officers.Heserved in the CBI during Indira Gandhi’s tenure as PM.
Later,he put in his papers and returned home to care for his ailing father T K Padmanabha Iyer.
Later,he put in his papers and returned home to care for his ailing father T K Padmanabha Iyer.
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