According to Walahangunavewe Dhammarathana Thero, the head of the Mihintale Rajamaha Temple, the members of the Civil Defense Department, Army and Navy personnel who were guarding the Mihintala shrine, which is a historical place, have been withdrawn without notice.
The head of the vihara states that there is a problem with the security of the sacred place due to the removal of the soldiers who were deployed for the protection of the holy place without informing them after removing the front gate of the shrine located in the Mihintala shrine. In that relic house, there are the relics of the great Arhats, ashes, statues of Satara Varam made of gold, the golden Buddha statue that the great Arhat had performed the day before, and several earthen statues weighing more than a hundred kilos. There is a big problem with Mihintala Puda Bima Viharadhi says.
