Thiruvananthapuram/
Bengaluru, Nov. 10: The Kerala police is planning to chargesheet Kannada film actor Jayamala who stirred up a controversy in 2006 by claiming that she had entered the sanctum sanctorum of the famed Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in 1987 and touched the idol.
The crime branch, that had been ordered to probe the issue, is now accusing the actress of conspiring with her astrologer, Parappanangadi Unnikrishna Panicker, to malign the famed temple by making a false claim.
Sleuths have now discovered that Mr Panicker, who had scores to settle with the temple priests, had persuaded Jayamala, one of his clients, to claim that she had entered the temple.
It was two weeks after Mr Panicker held a devaprasnam (astrological fact-finding) and “discovered” that females had entered the temple that the actress sent a fax message to the Travancore Devaswom Board and divulged to a TV channel that she had touched the idol.
Jayamala said she had got a call from the Devasam Board in 2006 asking her to fax her claims.
She sent a fax and also accused Mr Unnikrishnan of making her the scapegoat in the issue.