Seven held for ‘issuing’ fake darshan tickets at Dwaraka Tirumala temple

The Eluru district police arrested seven persons, including a software engineer, for their alleged involvement in a fake darshan ticket racket at Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple at Dwaraka Tirumala, on Thursday.

The accused have been identified as Inampudi Sai Jagannatha Raju, Mulagala Ramesh, Tontapaka Satyanarayana, Uppalapati Srinivas (outsourcing employees of the temple), Keerthi Ashok Kumar, security guard, Manukonda Anjaneyulu, a security supervisor at the temple and software engineer M. Naga Venkata Satya Srinivas Rao, of Tadepalligudem.