Tension prevailed at Malekal Tirupati temple near Arsikere on Monday evening after miscreants allegedly vandalised idols of deities being made for a museum on the temple premises.
A group of people allegedly entered the museum and broke the idols, when nobody was around. The incident came to light only when the workers returned to the museum and noticed idols broken.
Sridhar Murthy, a resident of Arsikere, had shown interest to set up a museum to place idols of deities on the temple premises. He had hired sculptors for the work. As many as 13 idols, some of which were in the finishing stage, were vandalszed by the miscreants.
