Some unidentified miscreants decamped with money from the temple offering box (hundi) at the Sri Vanadurga Bhavani Temple at Edupayala in Medak district in the early hours of Saturday. CCTV footage shows the miscreants entering the temple premises and taking away two hundis to the old Kalyana Katta, where they broke them open and decamped with
the cash and other valuables offered by devotees.
When the priests and temple staff reached the temple in the morning, they found the hundis missing. Following a complaint, the Papannapet police reached the spot and traced the old hundis at the old Kalyana Katta. A case was registered. Efforts are on to nab the burglars.