K.S. Baiju, who retired as the Thiruvabharanam Commissioner of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) in July 2019, is the seventh accused in the case. Investigators say that Baiju committed a deliberate lapse by being absent from Sabarimala while gold-plated copper plates on the Dwarapalaka idols were dismantled and handed over to the sponsor of the gold-plating work in 2019