FILE PHOTO: A view of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala, February 20, 2012. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo
NEW DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of a former royal dynasty to run the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple, one of the world's richest places of worship, after the state government tried to take it over when the family patriarch died.
When one of the vaults of the towering centuries-old Hindu temple in Thiruvananthanpuram in Kerala state was opened in 2011, it was found to hold diamonds by the sackful along with tonnes of gold coins and jewellery - a hoard estimated at over $20 billion (15.86 billion pounds).
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