Overview
- Authorities shut the Pedda Peta Ram Mandir to devotees following a clash at the shrine during Sri Ram Navami, pausing darshan until further orders.
- Police said security pickets will remain at the temple and imposed Section 163 of the BNSS, the new version of Section 144, across Akiveedu to prevent fresh unrest.
- Investigators named 58 accused on charges such as criminal conspiracy, attempt to murder, and promoting enmity, and they sent 21 people to judicial remand.
- Union minister Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma announced that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad will carry out renovation at the existing site and asked police for a formal report on the violence.
- He said the effort has no political motive and is open to all communities, even as some locals object over recent religious conversions and the temple remains under tight guard.