Three priests were found brutally murdered in the courtyard of Sri Arakeshwara Temple at Guttalu on the outskirts of Mandya city on Friday morning.
The bodies of the priests, identified as Ganesh, Prakash and Anand, were found in a pool of blood with their heads crushed with boulders. The bodies were spotted by the villagers after they found the temple door open.
The three used to sleep on the premises for security of the temple and its property, the police stated.Police is suspecting that robbery could be the motive behind these murders as the three hundis were moved outside the temple premises and the offerings, mainly cash, was looted. The emptied kanike hundis (money collection boxes) were found outside the temple.
The killers had managed to escape with the cash in the three hundi boxes leaving behind only coins of various denominations, which are found spilled near hundis. Police said that before escaping, the miscreants also ransacked the sanctum sanctorum of the temple in search of more valuables and cash.
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