Source: Sandhya Times (Hindi)
BADRINATH, HIMALAYAS, INDIA, January 16, 2002: Badri Kedar Nath Temple’s chief priest, Vishnu Nambutri, has been suspended. This information has been provided by the president of the committees of these temples Sri Vinod Prasad Nautiyal. Sri Nautiyal said that Rawal [chief priest] Nambutri was doing his own will for the last many years and that he was even ignoring the suggestions of the temple committee. He was also not forwarding the offerings made by the devotees to the managing committee, Nautiyal alleged. Sri Nautiyal said that a four-member body has been constituted.