Entanglement and the Separation of Church and State -- in India

I am late to this story but (thanks to the illumination of our incomparable librarian, Arundhati Satkalmi) there is a major controversy in southern India dealing with the discovery of huge sums of money inside a Hindu temple (totaling $22 billion), the product of individual donations to the temple over the course of history.  A Reuters story is here, and this story also gives additional information.  The government wants the money to serve India's population; many Hindus are agitated by the possibility that the government will simply seize it; and there seems to be some feature of this dispute which involves the property on which this and other Hindu temples are situated, but I am not certain.  Does anyone have more information about this dispute?