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Chartered flight over Tirumala temple creates anxiety, TTD objects to flying over shrine

Many such flights including flights with passengers have been spotted flying over the sanctum sanctorum of the Tirumala shrine in the past
 

Tirumala: The hovering of a chartered aircraft above Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirumala for the last two days has been giving anxious moments to officials of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams as well as temple priests.

A chartered aircraft of Survey of India (SoI) was spotted flying over the Tirumala shrine on Wednesday. Alarmed by the violation, the officials of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) have lodged a complaint with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Chennai.

According to Vaikhanasa Agama Shastra, no aircraft should fly over Vimana Venkateswara Swamy. The TTD Vigilance Department said they have complained to Chennai ATC after an aircraft flew over Tirumala. Vigilance official Manohar said that Chennai ATC has said that steps would be taken not to allow any plane to fly over Tirumala.