The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the alleged theft of gold assets at the Sabarimala temple, has uncovered evidence suggesting that Unnikrishnan Potty, the first accused, and officials of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), which administers the temple, entered into a criminal conspiracy to transport the ‘dwarapalaka’ (guardian) idols to Chennai under the guise of gold re-plating in 2025 to conceal the alleged pilferage of gold committed in 2019. Devotees at Sabarimala Temple in Pathanamthitta. (ANI) The key findings of the SIT investigation were placed before the Kerala high court in an interim status report on Monday, nearly 10 months after allegations of misappropriation of gold from the temple’s door frames and the guardian idols first surfaced. Another key development in the investigation is that the SIT has “collected overwhelming materials” against P S Prasanth, who served as TDB president between 2023 and 2025, in connection with the decision by Potty and the board to send the guardian idols to the Chennai-based firm Smart Creations for alleged re-plating last year. Prasanth, along with other accused …