{"id":11053,"date":"2012-05-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/05\/26\/temple-trusts-to-be-weapons-license-patil\/"},"modified":"2012-05-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T12:00:00","slug":"temple-trusts-to-be-weapons-license-patil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/05\/26\/temple-trusts-to-be-weapons-license-patil\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Trusts To Be Weapons License: Patil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/india\/temple-trusts-to-be-weapons-license-patil-209109\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, May 10, 2012 (ndtv.com): Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil has said the state government would provide temple trusts license for possessing weapons. This announcement comes in the wake of theft of a Deity from Dive Agar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government provides security to some important temples. Some of these are under threat from terrorists and dacoits,&#8221; Patil said on Thursday. &#8220;If temple trusts demand for providing them with license for possessing weapons, then the government will allow them for it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The move by the state government comes after a gang of robbers attacked two watchmen at Ganesh temple at Dive Agar, in Raigad district, and fled with an ancient 3.3 lb. gold statue, estimated to be worth US$92,000. One of the watchman died in the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MUMBAI, INDIA, May 10, 2012 (ndtv.com): Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil has said the state government would provide temple,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}