Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 29 -- The Special Investigation Team probing the Sabarimala gold theft case on Monday made another arrest, taking former Travancore Devaswom Board member Vijayakumar into custody from Thiruvananthapuram.

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 the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala.

Earlier on December 26, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday conducted a raid at the residence of D Mani, alias Balamurugan, in connection w...