KURNOOL: A team formed by Superintendent of Police Dr. Kaginelli Fakkeerappa to go into the damage at Yaganti temple concluded that it was not due to mining blasts carried out in the area.
Members of the team were neither technically qualified to certify nor can absolve themselves of the responsibility, said a conservation activist. It appears to be an exercise to hush up things and fix the blame elsewhere, it is learnt. Inquiries at Banaganapalle reveal that most of the employees are on the payrolls of mining barons and were inadequate to protect and preserve the national heritage site at Yaganti.
Quite predictably, the three-member team concluded that the blasting intensity primarily affects or damages nearby areas, material or constructions. As there is no damage to the nearby constructions, it can be ‘concluded’ that the aforesaid incident could not have occurred due to the blasts.
It further said the material used as a beam for the mandapam is a sedimentary…
