Thiruvananthapuram, Jan. 10 -- Thantri Kandharar Rajeevar, the chief priest (Tantri) of Sabarimala, arrested a day earlier in connection with the Sabarimala gold theft case, was shifted to the hospital on Saturday following health complications. He was lodged at the Thiruvananthapuram Special Sub Jail.

Jail authorities shifted him to the Thiruvananthapuram General Hospital in a prison ambulance for medical treatment.

The Sabarimala gold controversy centres on allegations of irregularities in the gold plating at the Sabarimala temple. This situation arose from a 1998 donation of 30.3 kilograms of gold and 1,900 kilograms of copper by industrialist Vijay Mallya, intended for the cladding of the sanctum sanctorum and the wooden carvings of...