Badrinath Kedarnath temple committee sends notice to Telangana trust over plans to create replicas of shrines

Gopeshwar: The Badrinath Kedarnath temple committee has sent a legal notice to a trust in Telangana that is reportedly planning to create replicas of the famous Himalayan temples in the southern state, officials said on Monday.

According to a press note issued by the committee's media officer Harish Gaur, the notice has been signed by the panel's chief executive officer, Vijay Prasad Thapliyal.

The notice says devotees have been visiting the famous Himalayan temples of Badrinath and Kedarnath in Uttarakhand since ages, while opposing plans to create replicas of these shrines.

The trust has been asked to respond to the notice within two weeks, failing which civil and criminal proceedings will be initiated against it, the temple committee has said.